Govt has no central data on heart attack, cancer, HIV: MoHFW to Rajya Sabha

Heart diseases contributed 28.1% of the total deaths in India, in 2016 compared to 15.2% in 1990

Heart diseases accounted for 28.1 per cent of the deaths in India in 2016, the government told Rajya Sabha on Thursday. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) quoted an Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) report while answering an unstarred question on "upward trend in cases of heart attack, cancer, diabetes and HIV" in Rajya Sabha. 

Rajya Sabha MP from Tamil Nadu, K R N Rajeshkumar had asked "whether the cases of heart attack, cancer, diabetes and HIV have shown an upward trend in the country according to World Health Organisation (WHO) data; and if so, then what