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Jharkhand door-to-door survey: April-May deaths up 43% from 2 years ago
The Planning Department is yet to receive updated data on registered deaths from districts for calendar year 2020 and 2021, and hence comparisons with corresponding period in the previous year or with sequential months in the current year are not possible.
Written by Abhishek Angad | Ranchi |
Updated: June 14, 2021 7:26:16 am
AN INTENSIVE Public Health Survey (IPHS) survey in Jharkhand — the first such door-to-door counting of deaths by any state during the second wave of the pandemic — has revealed that 25,490 people died in the state during April-May 2021. This is 43 per cent higher than 17,819 total deaths officially registered across all 24 districts in April-May 2019 as per the Directorate of Economics and Statistics in the state’s Planning Department.
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Officially, the state has said there were 3,864 deaths due to Covid-19 during April-May this year. Officials in the state Planning Department warned against making a simplistic comparison of this with the survey findings.
“There are two points to note: i) In a normal year 2019, the number of deaths officially registered were as high as 17,819. You have to understand that a door-to-door survey will always allow for very good capture of death data. ii) Unlike in urban areas, deaths are not necessarily registered in rural areas,” said an official.
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