World Hepatitis day: DOCTORS ACT NOW
Our country spends so many resources fighting diseases like AIDS, partly due to foreign alms and funding dedicated to the causes, but when it comes to a diseases as prevalent, chronic and life threatening as hepatitis, we even are not sure of our statistics!
In 2010, WHO declared July 28th as the World Hepatitis Day. The date was chosen in honour of the birthdate of Baruch Samuel Blumberg, the nobel laureate Nobel Laureate, who discovered hepatitis B virus and, well, the disease was chosen, because of the threat that it poses worldwide to the entire population. The main aim of World Hepatitis Day is to sensitize and encourage people on how to prevent, diagnose, and treat viral hepatitis infections.
Hepatitis is not a simple disease caused by a few factors but a disease that can be caused by a number of viruses namely A,B.C,D and E, which in-turn are caused by number of factors. In India, hepatitis A is presumed to be most common, whereas we all know hep C is the deadliest of the lot. Recent WHO statistics show that 40 million Indians are suffering from hepatitis B. At the same time, our government as well as the premier international research organization also admits that in India, the figures are grossly understated and the prevalence of hepatitis is much more than most official statistics claim.
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