C. Lalremruata
According to
the latest estimates released by World Health Organisation (WHO) in December
2014, there were about 198 million cases of malaria in 2013 (with an
uncertainty range of 124 million to 283 million) and an estimated 584 000
deaths (with an uncertainty range of 367 000 to 755 000). Malaria mortality
rates have fallen by 47% globally since 2000 and by 54% in the WHO African
Region.
Even India
has seen a "major" decline in the number of deaths caused by Malaria
in the last three
years even as more than half a million people die globally of
the deadly mosquito-borne disease the WHO report on April 2015
Malaria
killed 584,000 people across the world in 2013 with children under five
accounting for at least three-fourths of those deaths, it said. However, global
incidence of malaria has plunged 30% and mortality rates have fallen 40%
between 2000 and 2013.
An estimated
31 people, out of 23,105 people afflicted with the disease, died of Malaria in
Mizoram during 2014.
Dr. C.
Zarzoliana, Programme Officer of the State Vector Borne Disease Control
Programme (VBDCP) said 3,30,882 people, consisting more than 30 per cent of the
total population were diagnosed with malaria last year as Mizoram is a tropical
and malaria-prone area.
Review
meeting on TB was held at Directorate of Health Services on 13 August 2015,
from January – June 2015 10 person has been died out of 1079 cases detected
only and 83 has been found that having TB with HIV+ve.
According to
the state health department, 119 people including 40 women died of malaria in
Mizoram in 2009 and 91 people had died of malaria in Mizoram, the sources said.