Health and Climate Change in India

You know, an important effect of the climate change on India is the continued deterioration of public health sector. Its effects can be felt in the growing reports of the vector borne diseases such as Malaria, Kala-Azar, Japanese Enceptiles, Filaria and Dengue This argument can be substantiated by the recent news in the Times of India when National Vector Borne Disease Programme comes out with country’s first malaria maps. This maps has been created by the information provided by the Geographical Information System (GIS)
Provisional data for the year 2006 (provisional) reveals the largest numbers of cases in the country were reported by Orissa, followed by Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Gujarat & Uttar Pradesh and the largest numbers of deaths were reported by Assam followed by Orissa, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Gujarat & Karnataka.
1.67 million cases of malaria (including 0.77 million P.falciparum cases) and 1487 deaths were reported from the country in 2006.
However these statistics that are given above are not duly tackled by the umbrella health program-National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).