india's health and education in 2021
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Constant underfunding of the public healthcare system in the last decade has worsened health infrastructure, the Oxfam India report shows.
When it comes to healthcare, people in general category are better off than Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) households; Hindus are better off than Muslims; the rich do better than the poor; men are better off than women; and the urban population fares better than the rural.
These are the findings of Oxfam India’s “Inequality Report 2021: India’s Unequal Healthcare Story”. The report says that the absence of universal health coverage has starkly and disproportionately affected marginalised groups at a time when socio-economic inequalities in India are growing because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
While 65.7 per cent of the households belonging to the general category have access to improved, non-shared sanitation facilities, only 25.9 per cent ST households have better, non-shared sanitation facilities. Also, 12.6 per cent more children are stunted in SC households than those in general category homes. And, the chances of a child dying before the age of five are three times higher for the bottom 20 per cent of the population compared to the top 20 per cent. The Oxfam India report also finds that institutional births and access to food supplements under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) are 10 per cent less for Muslim households as compared to Hindu households; and 8 per cent less children are immunised in Muslim households.
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