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Treatment of cardiovascular diseases cost a bomb in rural India
Among all ailments, it is infections that are making Indians the most sick. And, this is true for both, rural and urban areas, according to latest study of the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO).
These infections include malaria, viral hepatitis / jaundice, acute diarrhoeal diseases / dysentery, dengue fever, chikungunya, measles, acute encephalitis syndrome, typhoid, hookworm infection filariasis, tuberculosis and others.
Rural areas are more affected by them than the urban ones, the NSSO’s study, conducted from July 2017-June 2018, said.
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