Mumbai: Notification of major diseases such as TB, Diabetes, Hypertension and HIV see a 29% decline in the city in 2020 as a pandemic regarding, which underlines the extent to which the diagnosis of non-covid diseases is paralyzed.
During that period, death due to non-covid diseases increased by 12%.
In the absence of information about ’causes of death’, BMC cannot describe which disease causes excess non-covid deaths.
NGO Praja Foundation released his white paper on the ‘health state in Mumbai’ on Tuesday expressed concern that the corporation was in the dark about the details of non-covid deaths.
The report stated that there was a 24% increase in total registered deaths in 2020 (1,12,906) on 2019 (91,223) in Mumbai.
If 11,116 deaths from Covid are issued, there are still 12% leaps in non-covid mortality, which still cannot be explained.
“Covid only contributed 10% of deaths in 2020.
However, due to the lack of death data (COD) since January 2020, BMC did not have a separation that left the remaining 90% of the remaining death,” said Milind Mhaske, Director, the Praja Foundation .
Usually, cardiovascular disease and stroke contribute to the largest part of all death causes in Mumbai followed by diabetes, cancer and respiratory diseases.
However, due to the lack of data COD for 2020, there is no way to find out whether death due to disease rises or dipped, he said.
Data does show that fewer people with this disease were diagnosed in the city last year.
The Praja report stated that new registration for diabetes and hypertension fell 29% and 24% by 2020 compared to the previous year, while TB fell 28%.
The sharpest decline seen in the Dengue case at 78%, which is often associated with a civil body.
Detection of new HIV cases is too long 46%.
BMC has COD data until the registration of birth and death is transferred to the Civil Registration System (CRS) from the center in January 2016.
After that, it is claimed no longer has access to COD data.
“Without real-time COD data, how can the corporate plan intervention,” said Mangesh Pednekar, Director, Healis Sekhsaria Institute for public health.
Dr.
Mangala Gomare, BMC executive health worker, said they had written to the center through the state requesting access to COD data.
Mhaske said some countries have started a parallel COD system.
Praja officials said BMC continued to wrestle with 31% of empty posts in the Ministry of Health Public and Medical College.
“Employing the workforce overnight, which we see in a pandemic, cannot be an emergency activity,” said Pednekar.