Lok Sabha Question No. 5052 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-31
Subject: Rotavirus Infection
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: DUSHYANT CHAUTALA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5052 TO BE ANSWERED ON 31 ST MARCH, 2017

## ROTAVIRUS INFECTION

## 5052. SHRI DUSHYANT CHAUTALA:

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government is aware that eight to tenlakh children are admitted in hospitals across the country due to rotavirus infection every year and one lakh out of them succumb to death;

(b) if so, the detai ls thereof and the total number of children affected by rotavirus, State - wise for the last three years;

(c) whether the Government has contemplated specifics for rotavirus eradication programme on the line of TB eradication programme across the country; and

(d) if so, the details thereof and the action taken by the Government thereon?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (SHRI FAGGAN SINGH KULASTE)

(a) & (b): Yes, as per the published paper in Journal Vaccine titled 'Rotavirus gastroenteritis in India, 2011 - 2013: the revised estimates of disease burden and potential impac of vaccines' there are estimated 8,72,000 inpatient admissions and 78,000 rotavirus associate d deaths in the country.

There is no rotavirus surveillance carried out by States/UTs to ascertain Stat wise  burden.  However,  ICMR  in  collaboration  with  Christen  Medical  College,  Vellore  h established sentinel surveillance of selected sites in t he country and has projected States/UTs wise rotavirus disease burden as at Annexure.

(c)& (d): The  rotavirus  cannot  be  technically  eradicated  with  the  present  vaccine  as vaccine does not provide lifelong immunity, virus is viable outside the human body for long time, it has animal reservoir, and there are subclinical infections that are transmissibl the  rotavirus  disease  can  be  controlled  through  vaccination  of  children  under  Uni Immunization Programme. Rotavirus vaccine in under Un iversal Immunization Programme in nine  States  namely  Himachal  Pradesh,  Haryana,  Andhra  Pradesh,  Orissa,  Assam,  Tripura Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The vaccine is given to child as three doses at and 14 weeks of age of the child.

## Annexure

## Estimated State/UTs wise Rotavirus diarrhoeaburden

| S.No.   | State/UTs          |   Rotavirusdiarrhoe a deaths |   Rotavirusdiarrhoea hospital episodes |
|---------|--------------------|------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
| 1       | Andaman & Nicobar  |                           13 |                                    243 |
| 2       | Andhra & Telangana |                         2592 |                                  42717 |
| 3       | ArunachalPradesh   |                           57 |                                   1171 |
| 4       | Assam              |                         2444 |                                  11573 |
| 5       | Bihar              |                         7136 |                                 118060 |
| 6       | Chhattisgarh       |                         1538 |                                  16921 |
| 7       | Chandigarh         |                           54 |                                   1025 |
| 8       | Dadra & NH         |                           22 |                                    424 |
| 9       | Daman & Diu        |                           10 |                                    189 |
| 10      | Delhi              |                          419 |                                  19343 |
| 11      | Goa                |                           45 |                                    751 |
| 12      | Gujarat            |                         2706 |                                  81958 |
| 13      | Haryana            |                         1203 |                                  39785 |
| 14      | Himachal           |                          216 |                                   5811 |
| 15      | Orissa             |                         2556 |                                  47517 |
| 16      | Punjab             |                          656 |                                  23858 |
| 17      | J & K              |                          401 |                                  13699 |
| 18      | Jharkhand          |                         1823 |                                  39690 |
| 19      | Karnataka          |                         1852 |                                  50770 |
| 20      | Kerala             |                          294 |                                  18272 |
| 21      | Lakshadw eep       |                            2 |                                     50 |
| 22      | M adhya P radesh   |                         6458 |                                 110582 |
| 23      | Maharashtra        |                         2369 |                                  99899 |
| 24      | Meghalaya          |                          149 |                                   1953 |
| 25      | Mizoram            |                           38 |                                    423 |
| 26      | Manipur            |                           86 |                                   1136 |
| 27      | Nagaland           |                           82 |                                    396 |
| 28      | Puducherry         |                           56 |                                   1047 |
| 29      | Rajasthan          |                         4876 |                                  92129 |
| 30      | Sikkim             |                           25 |                                    421 |
| 31      | Tamil Nadu         |                         1166 |                                  31937 |
| 32      | Tripura            |                          118 |                                   2066 |
| 33      | Uttarakhand        |                          435 |                                  12430 |
| 34      | UP                 |                        17289 |                                 216084 |
| 35      | WB                 |                         2433 |                                  49468 |
|         | India              |                        61167 |                                1141580 |