The scheme’s performance may well depend on an oft-ignored ingredient in Indian policymaking: data. And that will depend on a regular flow of credible and granular data. But the HMIS suffers from poor quality and data gaps. The lack of capacity and accountability has meant that India squandered an opportunity to collect rich granular data through the HMIS over the past decade. The poor state of health statistics means that India under-reports even common diseases such as malaria and TB, data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows.

Source: Mint September 27, 2018 03:08 UTC