- It is not wise to delay prevention and early detection of diseases like cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. Waiting until symptoms become severe or obvious to seek treatment can lead to terrible health outcomes or death. - Many major non-communicable diseases account for over half of all deaths in India. By 2033, diseases like cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes are projected to cause even more deaths than infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS. - Early detection through regular health screenings and adopting a healthy lifestyle can help reduce risks and catch diseases in earlier, more treatable stages. Ignoring prevention and putting off treatment is a dangerous approach with serious health consequences.

1. Whatever can be prevented, must be prevented.
Whatever needs to be added
to strengthen, should be added.

2. Is it not a shame, to earn a 6 digit salary
per month and catch your cancer in very late
stage and die in next couple of years / lead a
terrible life / be a burden to someone?

3. Is it a good idea to detect your heart disease
only after your first major heart attack?

4. Are you really smart to learn the proper use of
Helmet, after you were in coma for 15 days in a
hospital following an accident?

5. Is it wise to learn that your baby is a special child,
only when all the signs become obvious?

6. How cruel is it to know that your buddy
was suffering from mental disorder, only
after he/she commits suicide.

7. Is it not utterly foolish, to know that you
suffered from diabetes only when you
bled inside your eyes?

8. In 2005, Non-Communicable Diseases like
Cardio-Vascular Diseases, Diabetes, of all
Whereas, HIV/AIDS caused only 2% Cancer,
deaths and 6% of deaths due to all other
Brain Stroke, Lung Diseases accounted for
infections in India (WHO estimation, 1998).
53% (5,466,000) of all deaths (10,362,000).
As per current trend, by 2033, HIV could
account for only 17% of all deaths and 40%
of all other infections in India.

9.  7-9 lakhs of new cancer cases every year.
cancer scene of India
 20-25 lakhs cases of cancer at any point
of time in the country.
 That means every case of cancer dies
within (approx) 2-4 years of diagnosis.

10.  Cardiovascular disease is the world's leading
globally & in India
killer, accounting for 16.7 million or 29.2
per cent of total global deaths in 2003.
heart disease
 The World Health Organization (WHO)
estimates that 60 per cent of the world's
cardiac patients will be Indian by 2010.

11. mental health in India
 Severe mental disorders that include major depression,
schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and organic psychosis
affect nearly 20 per 1000 populations.
 Close to 10 million severely mentally ill, are in India
without adequate treatment.
 Less than one psychiatrist available for every
3 lakhs population.

12.  in 2001, road accidents caused 353,100 injuries and
80,262 deaths.
road traffic injury
 Deaths due to road accidents increased in India from
40,000 in 1986 to 85,000 by 2001.
in India

13.  about 3% of all children --across countries,
races, religions and cultures-- are 'special'.
globally & in India
 In India, it was calculated that 94 persons per
special children,
 A few among them, like those with Down's syndrome
1,00,000 were mentally retarded and 105 persons
per 1,00,000 were mentally ill. As per pick. When it
[--or mental retardation] are easier to 2001
census to autism however, diagnosis (mentally
comes 2,263,821 mentally disabled gets complex,
retarded + mentally ill) people spectrum:
because autism spans a wide are in India.
from the barely discernible to the well-defined,
with several shades in between.

14. Reduce the risk of diabetes
 Diabetesitis aexpected time bomb. It currently affects
In India, is medical that the number of individuals
globally & in India
246 million people globally.over the next of people
with diabetes will increase The number
afflicted with the disease has been rising at a rate 2020.
20 years from 32 millions in 2000 to 81 millions in
of 7 million per year. Some 380 million people are
Diabetes
expected to suffer from the disease by 2025.
Cases are being found increasingly in developing
countries. (2006 - 2007 data)

15. Should we sit back, hand-in-hand
and wait for the inevitable to happen?”