Posted on 05/13/2008 6:01:27 PM PDT by steelboy
The same could be said of india's health system. Sixty years after independence, India remains one of the unhealthiest places on earth. Millions of people still suffer from diseases and ailments that simply no longer exist almost anywhere else on the planet. Four out of five children are anemic. Almost one in four women who give birth receives no antenatal care. What makes the picture even bleaker is the fact that India's economic boom has had, so far at least, little impact on health standards. Think of it this way: in the five years between 2001 and 2006 India's economy grew almost 50%, the country's biggest expansion in decades. Meantime, its child-malnutrition rate, a number that measures the percentage of children under 3 who are moderately or severely underweight, dropped just a single percentage point, to 46%. That's worse than in most African countries, and means almost half India's children remain at risk of "health problems such as stunted growth, mental retardation, and increased susceptibility to infectious diseases,"
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It is all because of the bath water.
OMG! How in the hell did humans populate this earth without 'antenatal' care? Now we're really all gonna die!
Actually, I think they may all be in PA...
“OMG! How in the hell did humans populate this earth without ‘antenatal’ care? Now we’re really all gonna die!”
I’ve been to India and I was not impressed. However, the fact that there is about 1.2 Billion of them would seem to suggest that they’re doing something “right” when it comes to ‘antenatal’ care!
4 out of 5 kids are anemic? A few nice juicy rare steaks will clear that up.
USHA: Don’t go. India is a dreadful, dreadful place.
ZUBIN: You know, it’s the only country that still has the plague? (laughing as he says the line) I mean, the plague! Please!
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