Mumbai: Covid-19 replaces the usual graphics-toppers, heart attacks and cancer to be the main cause of death in the city in 2020.
Of the 1.1 lakh total deaths recorded in the first year of Pandemi, 11,105 (10%) is Covid fatality.
, 8,576 (7.6%) was cancer death and 5,633 (5%) were a heart attack, according to the latest data accessed through RTI.
While deaths under most of a dozen heads mentioned separately see a drop, three conditions see higher deaths compared to non-pandemic years – kidney failure, malaria and typhus.
Data, based on the Death Certificate issued by the BMC, showed a decrease in 35% heart attack by 2020 compared to 2018 (8,601) and almost 4% compared to 2019 (5,849).
Cancer deaths also fell 14% -15% by 2020 (8,576) compared to the two years of pre-pandemic 2018 (10,073) and 2019 (9,958).
Dr Avinash Supe, a member of the Covid death audit committee, said a drop of death from infectious diseases and trauma is expected, but a heart attack and death from cancer cannot disappear; Factors such as certification, death at home need to be carefully seen.
The hospital has seen a decline in heart events in the first few months of pandemic because of a combination of factors and partly because fear will come to the hospital, said cardiology from Brian Pinto.
However, normalized numbers when everything starts open.
Data showed death in Mumbai rose 22.7% by 2020 during the previous year, and most of them were linked – like in previous years – for ‘other diseases’.
The head can include deaths from septicemia, bacterial diseases, intestinal infections, blood disorders, encephalitis, and poisoning, among others.