| | AUGUST 20234While India has improved its healthcare infrastructure significantly over the past decade, we still have a long way to go. The ever-increasing number of Cancer patients among children in India is one area that needs immediate attention. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), our country is home to at least 20 percent of the global childhood cancer burden, with nearly 75,000 kids getting cancer every year. Non-communicable diseases, including cancer, cause nearly 50 percent of the total deaths among children aged between 5 years and 14 years. The most common types of childhood cancers are leukemias, brain cancers, lymphomas, and solid tumors like neuroblastomas and Wilms tumors. Childhood cancer cases are high in low- and middle-income countries where the health system is weak and contributes to cure rates of less than 30 percent. This is due to significant barriers in early diagnosis, inability to accurately diagnose, poor access to health care facilities, and inability to initiate treatment promptly.Clearly, the situation screams for a sustainable solution. The current national health programs and policies are largely focused on cancers in adults. But childhood cancers are unique and require different kinds of care and services for better outcomes, survival, and long-term growth and development. Well, there is no shortcut. India needs better policies and more policies and programs to address childhood cancer. We need to create enhanced awareness about the disease, build more pediatric facilities, and ensure access to quality healthcare for children. According to National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research (NCDIR), Less than 50 percent of the tertiary public hospitals had facilities for brachytherapy caring for children with severe neutropenia, safety measures for the preparation of chemotherapy drugs, and daycare beds with infusion chairs.Sujith VasudevanManaging Editoreditor@ceoinsightsindia.comWe Need to Save Our Children Vol 04 · Issue 5 - 1 ·AUGUST, 2023 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Managing Editor Sujith Vasudevan NoidaRohit Raghubanshi Garima Anandadvertise@ceoinsightsindia.comEditorial queries editor@ceoinsightsindia.comAdvertising ManagersSaurav Saraswat To subscribeVisit https://www.ceoinsightsindia.com/subscribe/ or send emailto subscription@ceoinsightsindia.comMagazine Price is Rs. 150 per issuePublisher Alok ChaturvediPrinted and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of Info Connect Web Technolo-gies India Pvt. Ltd., and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published At No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugeshpalya, Bangalore-560017.Copyright © 2023 Info Connect Web Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher. Senior Designer Girish M Designers Varun B Asokan S V VP - Sales & Marketing Amrit SinghCirculation Manager Magendran Perumal Editorial Team Hima P. M. Roshan Akthar P. Tejaswini Editorial
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