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82% of Karnataka children are anaemic
Karnataka’s flourishing economy has done little to nourish its children.
India’s most scientific health study — National Family Health Survey III — shows that rural children (84.3%) are more anaemic than their urban counterparts (79.4). In comparison, Maharashtra has 71.9% and Delhi has 63.2% of anaemic children.
Things aren’t getting better.
Added to this is a whopping 41.1% of children who are underweight, with 45.1% and 33.8% of them in rural and urban areas respectively. In the interim, women are growing obese.
Sample this: as against 13.6% of women who were obese/overweight in 1998-99, the number has swelled to 18.1% now. Naturally, the number of obese women in the cities is 200% more than in towns and villages. While 31.6% of women and 24.2% men were overweight in urban areas, the percentage was 10.1 and 7.8 in rural areas.
The grim picture does not end just with anaemia and obesity. Just 55% of children under two years were found to be fully immunised with BCG, measles and three doses each of polio/DPT vaccine. Only 17.1% of the children between 12 and 35 months received a vitamin A dose in the previous six months.
Here’s why Karnataka is one of the six highrisk HIV/AIDS states in the country: An alarming 76% of our rural women do not know that consistent use of condoms will reduce chances of getting AIDS. This is the first time that the knowledge of HIV/AIDS among married adults was studied in the NHFS.
The survey shows 43% of the rural women and 22% men have never heard of AIDS. There are 20 out of 100 women living in cities who did not know the existence of this dreaded disease. On the brighter side, close to 50% of women in the state participate in household decisions. But 20% experienced spousal violence.
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