DID YOU KNOW?
- The Indian pharmaceutical industry has seen deals worth $922 million in the second quarter of 2022 against $1 billion during the same period in 2021, according to IVCA-EY data.
- Cipla, India's third largest drug maker, has 47 manufacturing sites around the world which cater to around 86 markets across the globe.
- Surra is one of the most important haemoprotozoan diseases of the different livestock species caused by Trypanosoma evansi.
- In India, losses to livestock productivitywere estimated to be Rs 44,740 million annually due to Surra
- Among Indian women, cervical cancer is the second most frequent cancer, according to the WHO.
- Foodborne botulism, caused by consumption of improperly processed food, is a rare but potentially fatal disease if not diagnosed rapidly and treated with antitoxin
- There are more lost disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) by women to breast cancer globally than any other type of cancer.
- An estimated 180 000 deaths every year are caused by burns – the vast majority occur in low- and middleincome countries
- Buruli ulceris a chronic debilitating disease caused by an environmental Mycobacterium ulcerans.
- Alcohol consumption causes death and disability relatively early in life. In the age group 20–39 years approximately 13.5 % of the total deaths are alcohol-attributable
- The WHO Air Quality Guidelines: Global Update 2021 provides an assessment of health effects of air pollution and thresholds for health–harmful pollution levels
- In 2019, 99% of the world population was living in places where the WHO air quality guidelines levels were not met.
- Lack of clean water and sanitation and inadequate infection prevention and control promotes the spread of microbes, some of which can be resistant to antimicrobial treatment.
- In addition to death and disability, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) causes prolonged illness resulting in longer hospital stays, need for more expensive medicines and financial challenges for those impacted.
- Inhaledmedicationcancontrolasthmasymptomsandallowpeoplewithasthmatoleadanormal,activelife.
- World Economic Forum (WEF) has said that Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies can play a 'gamechanger' role in transforming cancer care in India.
- Dogsarethemainsourceofhumanrabiesdeaths,contributingupto99%ofallrabiestransmissionstohumans.
- Provision of safe water and sanitation is critical to prevent and control the transmission of cholera and other waterborne diseases
