NEW DELHI: A Delhi government report has attributed nearly 24 percent of the total about 89,000 deaths registered in the national capital in 2023 to infectious and parasitic diseases like cholera, diarrhoea, tuberculosis and hepatitis B, among others.
The Medical Certification of Cause of Deaths (MCCD) Report 2023, issued by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics of Delhi government, said around 21,000 people died due to infectious and parasitic diseases out of total 88,628 institutional deaths.
The number of institutional deaths due to cancer and related diseases were recorded at 6,054 during 2023, which was almost 12 percent more than 5,409 registered in 2022.
Source: PTI News
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