• Costly Diagnostic tests of Anaemia, Bilirubin, Oxygen saturation, creatinine and blood sugar.
• Little or no access to pathology centres in rural India-has high secondary and tertiary expenses.
• Lack of testing leads to the neglect of diseases.
• In India, Anaemia is classified as a major public health problem as it is estimated that 52% of non-pregnant women of reproductive age are anaemic.
• The liver disease burden in India is enormous with 22.2 deaths/100,000 population attributed to cirrhosis by the Global Health Observatory data from the World Health Organization.
• The reported prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease in different regions ranges from <1% to 13%, and recently, data from the International Society of Nephrology's Kidney Disease Data Centre Study reported a prevalence of 17%.
• According to the 2019 National Diabetes and Diabetic Retinopathy Survey report released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the prevalence was found to be 11.8% in people over the age of 50.
• According to a report, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was the second-highest cause of death in India after heart disease in 2017.