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per 1,000 or
2) Urban poor due to poor physical infrastructure and awareness leading to communicable
and infectious diseases like tuberculosis, typhoid and other water borne diseases. The same
can be said of villages with poor sanitation facilities.
3) Lack of access to healthcare services. If you drive 20 kms out of Bangalore (or any of the
other metros) you will find it hard to find any significant medical care. Diagnosis and
treatment is just not accessible to hundreds of millions of Indians.
Solutions
1) More investments in health infrastructure
2) Improved low cost diagnostics and a way to make the human resources required for
the same accessible to large sections of our population
3) Improvements at the policy and insurance level