While the number of diabetics and fresh cases of hypertension has sort of dipped a little at non-communicable disease (NCD) clinics and camps in the district, there has been a rise in cancer cases over the last three years.
However, the total number of people registered at NCD clinics and camps together with diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular problems has gone up in the district over the last three years.
The initial surge in fresh cases of diabetes and hypertension witnessed in 2012 and 2013, the first two years of the NCD programme, has dipped, though there has been a tremendous increase in the number of cases getting screened at clinics.
The number of cancer cases had gone up from a total of 75 during the period from April 2013 to March 2014 (21 men and 54 women) to 243 during period from April 2014 to March 2015 (104 men and 139 women).
In the period from April 2015 to March 2016, the total number of cases was 1,644, of which 523 were men and 1,121 women.
The number of people screened went up from 3.80 lakh in April 2013-14 to 4.19 lakh in 2014-15, with a slight dip in April 2015-16 at 4.10 lakh.
The initial surge in new cases of diabetes was reflected in the 2013-14 data.
As many as 10,937 people (3,919 men and 7,018 women) detected with the illness. Similarly, there were 13,723 new cases of hypertension (4,845 men and 8,878 women).
However, in 2015-16, the number of fresh cases of diabetes came down to 6,932 (2,806 men and 4,126 women). New cases of hypertension also were down at 9,691 (3,712 men and 5,979 women).
But, the total number (new cases plus follow-up ones) of people diagnosed with diabetes in the district at the clinics and camps went up from 1.04 lakh in 2013-14 to 1.22 lakh in 2015-16, while cases of hypertension rose from 1.41 lakh to 1.69 lakh during the same period.
