Interview Times Gone are the days when cardiovascular problems were very rare to be found. Nowadays not only technology is getting advanced but also diseases are getting a height. It seems diseases like heart attacks, heart strokes are increasing among people. Earlier not many cases of heart and all were found but today people from almost all age groups are suffering from any type of cardiovascular disease.
You can see recently, actor Mandira Bedi’s filmmaker husband Raj Kaushal died of a cardiac arrest in Mumbai at the age of 49. A month or so before Kaushal’s passing, actor Amit Mistry passed on of a heart attack, minutes after he finished his breakfast. At the time of passing, he was 47. Three years back, well-known industrialist Anant Bajaj, the only child of Bajaj Electrical Chairman Shekhar Bajaj, died due to a heart attack at the age of 41, and the same year, actor Inder Kumar, as well, lost his life to cardiac arrest. He, as well, was in his 40s, no more than 44 when he passed away.
This is profoundly stressful. The youthful in India are losing their lives to heart diseases in the prime of their age, when they ought to be living and working to their fullest capacities and contributing towards the development of the country. That cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading causes of death in India is known, going by the number of individuals we are losing to heart diseases each year.
According to the World Health Organization, within the year 2016, India detailed 63 percent of the overall deaths due to non-communicable diseases, of which 27 percent were attributed to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). As per the ICMR India State-level Disease Burden initiative, cardiovascular diseases are positioned number one in the list of diseases that are driven to deaths among both males and females, over age groups. But what is profoundly concerning is that 45 percent of deaths due to CVDs happen within the working-age group of 30-69 years within the country. In India, mortality due to ischemic heart disease—a condition of recurring chest pain or discomfort that occurs when a part of the heart does not get sufficient blood—is found to be most noteworthy in this working-age group.
As per the WHO, “cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a group of disorders of the heart and blood vessels, including coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, fringe arterial disease, rheumatic heart disease, congenital heart disease, deep vein thrombosis, and pulmonary embolism”. COVID-19 has as it was encouraged complicated matters of the heart: As per experts, patients with pre-existing cardiovascular disease and risk factors are more likely to involve adverse results associated with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
“In spite of the truth that most of its population is concentrated in the rural zones, India’s healthcare system remains to a great extent focussed within the urban sections only. A study found that most individuals in rural settings stay unaware of their conditions related to hypertension. As of now, the government has started door-to-door screenings in different villages for the determination of CVD risk factors including tobacco consumption, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, smoking, etc. but the challenges still stay. Once the screening is done and the patient is inquired to go and visit the doctor, things start to induce cloudily. Until and unless the ailment prevents the individual from doing work, he or she will not consider it to be an infection and subsequently would not approach an office. As time passes, complications emerging out of CVDs ended up troublesome to oversee. So as of now in India’s villages, there is a huge gap between the diagnosis and the patient actually looking for help in time by going to the doctor.
“The Ayushman Bharat program has so distant screened 838.39 lakh individuals for hypertension, 683.34 lakh for diabetes and 806.4 lakh for the three common forms of cancer through the HWCs”. Alongside the focus of ‘Eat Right India’ and ‘Fit India Movement’, the complete vision of the government is to move from Diagnostic Cure to Preventive Health.
