What is the importance of preventive healthcare?
India is on the brink of a disaster of chronic diseases like diabetes, cardio-vascular ailments, respiratory diseases and obesity. In the latest report of International Diabetes Federation, India has 50.4 million diabetic patients that amounts to approximately 7% of the adult population. By 2010, 3 out of 5 heart patients in the world will be Indians. More than 50% of deaths due to stroke and 25% deaths due to heart diseases occur because of hypertension. Considering mainly the effects of premature mortality, WHO estimates that (between 2005 and 2014) diabetes, heart disease and stroke combined will cost patients USD 336.6 billion in India. It will be a huge tragedy if these diseases are not controlled in a timely manner. The biggest problem with these diseases is that these diseases are silent killers they do not show symptoms until they reach a stage where life-long medication or surgery is the only solution left, and once you are affected by them, you are at risk for the rest of you
