Our Correspondent
Kohima | April 17
The adult HIV prevalence in Nagaland has come down from 0.98% during 2007 to 0.78% in 2015 as per India HIV estimation 2015. Some commonly prevalent diseases which burden the State today are communicable diseases such as Malaria, TB, viral infection, urinary tract infection, respiratory tract infection, gestroenteritis, typhoid, hepatitis, helminthiasis etc.
“With the changing of lifestyle, hypertension, cardiovasular diseases, diabetics and cancer etc have also become quite prevalent,” revealed the Annual Administrative Report 2015-16 of Health & Family Welfare Department. The report stated that the Department is responsible for providing basic health care to its people by enhancing infrastructure, manpower, logistic and capacity building as envisaged in 11th and 12th year plans. To address all these deficiencies the department is planning to accelerate infrastructure strengthening and development of manpower by establishing medical institute and medical college.
At the time of statehood in 1963, the department started with handful of doctors and nurses and inherited rudimentary health infrastructure. “Now the infrastructure has increased to 11 district hospitals, 2 chest disease & TB hospitals, 1 state mental health institute, 21 CHCs, 126 PHCs and 409 sub-centres with a total of 2, 233 hospital beds,” the report stated.
