{"id":11562,"date":"2019-11-13T16:32:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T11:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11562"},"modified":"2019-11-13T16:32:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T11:02:48","slug":"indias-cancer-care-facilities-highly-inadequate-says-parliamentary-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-cancer-care-facilities-highly-inadequate-says-parliamentary-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s cancer care facilities highly inadequate, says parliamentary panel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The parliamentary standing committee on science and technology, environment, forest and climate change has expressed serious concern over the rising number of cancer patients in the country.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key takeaways from the report:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Cancer is one of the leading threats to public health in India.An estimated 2.25 million people live with the disease in the country.The disease kills 8 lakh people annually.<\/li><li>Among women,the top three cancers are breast cancer, cervical cancer and oral cancer.<\/li><li>Among men,the top three cancers with the highest incidence are those in the oral cavity, cancer of the pharynx and those of the gastro-intestinal tract.<\/li><li>The inadequate Health infrastructure fails to address the needs of patients and contributes to a 20% higher mortality among Indian cancer patients than those in countries with a high Human Development Index (HDI).<\/li><li>In India, the Mortality to incidence ratio of 0.68 in India is higher than that in very high human development index (HDI) countries (0.38) and high HDI countries (0.57).<\/li><li>The incidence of cancer is very high in all North Eastern States as it is higher than the national average for several types of cancer.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Suggestions by the panel:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Cancer infrastructure needs to be upgraded especially in underserved parts of the country and in regions where cancer incidence is high such as in all north-eastern states.<\/li><li>The panel has also urged the government to expand and upgrade cancer treatment infrastructure for affordable and quality care by enlarging the network of the Mumbai-based Tata Memorial Centre (TMC).<\/li><li>The panel has recommended he government to set up a High-Level Steering Committee to work out modalities for rolling out of a Hub and Spoke Model in a time-bound manner.&nbsp;<\/li><li>This Hub and Spoke Model which is already in practice in Punjab has a network of centres or hubs capable of treating complex forms of cancer.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The parliamentary standing committee on science and technology, environment, forest and climate change has expressed serious concern over the rising number of cancer patients in the country. Facts: Key takeaways from the report: Cancer is one of the leading threats to public health in India.An estimated 2.25 million people live with the disease in the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-cancer-care-facilities-highly-inadequate-says-parliamentary-panel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India\u2019s cancer care facilities highly inadequate, says parliamentary panel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[1960],"class_list":["post-11562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-cancer-care-facilities","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700807099,"cached_date":1704828197},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}