India ranks below Lanka, Bangladesh on healthcare index

Rupali Mukherjee & Sushmi Dey | TNN | May 19, 2017,

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-ranks-below-lanka-bangladesh-on-healthcare-index/articleshow/58742574.cms

Highlights

• India has failed to achieve in healthcare goals and the gap between the score and predicted score has widened in the last 25 years.
• It performed worse than expected in tuberculosis, diabetes, rheumatic heart diseases and chronic kidney disease.

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: India continues to be one of the poor performers ranking at 154, much below China, Sri Lanka and even Bangladesh, in terms of quality and accessibility of healthcare, according to the new Global Burden of Disease study published in the Lancet.

The study points that despite the country's socio-economic development, India has failed to achieve in healthcare goals and the gap between the score and predicted score has widened in the last 25 years.

Though India's score in the healthcare index increased by 14.1 points, from 30.7 in 1990 to 44.8 in 2015, it performed worse than expected in tuberculosis, diabetes, rheumatic heart diseases and chronic kidney disease.

The study, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, assesses performance for 195 countries from 1990-2015, based on death rates from 32 diseases that could be avoided by effective medical care in the country year-on-year

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