Sabka swasthya: A must in UP

UP still remains far behind the Indian average on most of the health indicators, shows NFHS-4 data

Uttar Pradesh (UP) continues to make front page news even two weeks after the most followed state elections have been completed. One of the issues which did not figure much in the run-up to the campaigning or even after is the health and nutrition status in the state. The initial results of the much-awaited National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) data, based on a survey conducted in 2015-16, have recently been released. While the fact sheets for 11 states were released last year, the all-India statistics as well as fact sheets for all the remaining states have only been brought out