India - 12,901 reported waterborne illness fatalities 2010-2013 - More likely 1.4 million child diarrhoea deaths during that period

[Ronan Kelly]

13k die due to contaminated water in 4 yrs
Chethan Kumar,TNN | Feb 3, 2014, 09.00 PM IST

BANGALORE: As experts and planners struggle to come up with ideas to deal with water drinking water contamination in the country, more than 3,000 people have been dying every year due to diseases caused by contaminated water since 2010.

The ministry has divided such diseases into five, acute diarrhoeal diseases, enteric fever (typhoid), viral hepatitis, cholera and acute encephalitis, with the first diseases having claimed the most number of lives.

According to information accessed from the the ministry of health and family welfare, a total of 12,901 people have lost their lives to diseases caused due to contaminated drinking water in the country, with states like Uttar Pradesh West Bengal, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh recording more than 50 per cent of the deaths.
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[Acute diarrhoeal disease] has claimed 5,547 of the 12,901 lives, while acute encephalitis has killed 4,058 people. Cholera has caused the least number of deaths at 22, while typhoid and viral hepatitis have killed 1,469 and 1,805 people, respectively.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...nated-water-in-4-yrs/articleshow/29826766.cms

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: India - 12,901 reported waterborne illness fatalities 2010-2013

Re: India - 12,901 reported waterborne illness fatalities 2010-2013

Of course in reality, the numbers are much higher - Ro

Over 3 lakh children in India die annually due to diarrhoea-related diseases
Nirmalya Dutta May 14, 2013 at 8:57 am

A study conducted to find out the causes of diarrhoea in young children found that the rotavirus is responsible for the most severe cases. The study was conducted in seven different sites in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asian countries including India. The Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS), published in Lancet, shows diarrhoeal disease, which kills one in every ten child during first five years of their life has the highest rate of incidence in India. The WHO estimates that diarrhoea induced by the rotavirus kills between 90,000 and 153,000 in India every year. According to WHO, around 2.3 million children below the age of five in India annually and of this 334,000 are due to diarrhoea-related diseases.
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http://health.india.com/news/over-3...e-annually-due-to-diarrhoea-related-diseases/

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: India - 12,901 reported waterborne illness fatalities 2010-2013

Re: India - 12,901 reported waterborne illness fatalities 2010-2013

Rotavirus mortality in India: estimates based on a nationally representative survey of diarrhoeal deaths

Shaun K Morris a, Shally Awasthi b, Ajay Khera c, Diego G Bassani d, Gagandeep Kang e, Umesh D Parashar f, Rajesh Kumar g, Anita Shet h, Roger I Glass i, Prabhat Jha j & for the Million Death Study Collaborators

(Submitted: 03 January 2012 – Revised version received: 04 April 2012 – Accepted: 10 April 2012 – Published online: 16 July 2012.)

Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2012;90:720-727. doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.101873


Introduction

Diarrhoeal diseases are a major cause of hospitalizations and child deaths globally. Together they account for approximately one in six deaths among children younger than five years.1 Of India’s more than 2.3 million annual deaths among children, about 334 000 are attributable to diarrhoeal diseases.1–3 Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe diarrhoea in children in developed and developing countries.3,4 Two rotavirus vaccines have been shown to be effective against rotavirus and have been licensed in more than 100 countries, including India.5–7 Introduction of these vaccines is expected to reduce child mortality by decreasing the incidence of severe diarrhoea and the frequency of death from diarrhoeal disease.

There is considerable controversy in India regarding the introduction of rotavirus vaccines, especially because of uncertainty surrounding the estimates of deaths and hospitalizations caused by rotavirus and because of the current cost of the vaccines.8 Studies estimate that 90 000–153 000 children die from rotavirus infection in India each year but these numbers are not based on nationally representative samples.3,9,10 Here, we present new estimates of the frequency and number of diarrhoeal deaths attributable to rotavirus among Indian children younger than 5 years by combining direct estimates of diarrhoea-related mortality from a nationally representative study of deaths2 with the fraction of diarrhoeal hospitalizations in selected Indian urban centres that were caused by rotavirus.11 We also calculate the number of deaths preventable in India by a national rotavirus vaccination programme by using the estimated annual number of rotavirus-associated deaths in India and rotavirus vaccine efficacy data from clinical trials in two developing countries.
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http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/90/10/12-101873/en/