Recently, Oxfam’s Inequality Report 2021: India’s Unequal Healthcare Story was released which showed how the class and caste inequalities lead to difference in age expectancy, infant mortality and sanitation, among others.
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Indian health care sector was under prepared for Covid-19 pandemic.
The Poor and the Marginalised in India Find it Harder to Follow Covid -19 Protocols
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Is everything bad only?
Share of institutional deliveries in India increased from 38.7 per cent in 2005-06 to 78.9 per cent in 2015-16.
The number of fully immunised children aged 12-23 rose from 43.5 per cent in 2005-06 to 62 per cent in 2015-16. This can be attributed to the flagship initiative of Mission Indradhanush launched by the government since 2015. The immunisation in ST households is at 55.8% which is just 6.2% below the national average.
Teenage pregnancy (15-19 age group being mothers or pregnant) dropped significantly from 16 per cent in 2005-06 to 8 per cent in 2015-16.