The systematic attempt to obscure through the lack of data, means that the Indian people are not being fully informed, warned an editorial titled “India’s elections: why data and transparency matter,’’ in the latest issue of the medical journal The Lancet, published online, which wrote that the lack of health data transparency is a major obstacle that India faces.
Alongside this, the declining government spending on health, delay in conducting the 2021 census and the Sample Registration System survey report for 2021 and not releasing in the public domain completed poverty surveys, have also been highlighted as shortcoming in the health care ecosystem of the country.
The Union Health Ministry hasn’t responded to the claims made in the editorial.
