Govt data shows surge in people dying without any medical attention in 2020

Fewer women gave birth in institutional settings amid pandemic

About 45 out of every hundred people whose deaths were captured in government data had died without receiving medical attention in 2020.

This figure for 2020 is 10.5 percentage points over the 34.5 per cent figure recorded for such deaths in 2019, the year before the pandemic (see chart 1). The deaths captured in the government’s annual report on Vital Statistics of India based on the Civil Registration System include all causes including Covid-19 and otherwise. Only around 28 per cent of people dying received some attention from a medical institution in 2020, it showed.

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