Albino boy. Fatehpur Sikri, Uttar Pradesh.
The high level of contamination of waters easily spreads illnesses, like Hepatitis, Cholera, Diarrhoea, that in India kill thousand of children every year. Yamuna river, Agra, Uttar Pradesh.
Man with Proteus Syndrome. It is one of the rarest diseases in the world, it's calculated that about 200 people on the whole planet have been diagnosed. Udaipur, Rajasthan.
Albino boy. Fatehpur Sikri, Uttar Pradesh.
INDIAN HEALTHCARE
North of India, April-May 2017.
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India’s population is 17% of the world population and has 20% of the international rate of illnesses, 20% of maternal mortality and 25% of mortality in children under five.
Between 1990 and 2015 according to the report of Health Effect Institute and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, the country has registered an increase of almost 50% of deaths connected to pollution.
A public-health emergency was declared by doctors in Delhi as air quality in the world’s most polluted capital city plunged to levels likened to smoking at least 50 cigarettes in a day.
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