Silent surge in districts: Door-to-door screening reveals uneven burden of NCDs in Karnataka
The Hindu
Karnataka's door-to-door health screenings reveal significant regional disparities in non-communicable diseases, highlighting the need for targeted health strategies.
Karnataka’s flagship door-to-door health screening outreach Gruha Arogya has thrown up a stark district-wise health map, revealing not just the scale of silent illnesses but also deep regional variations in diagnosis rates.
The programme, implemented through ASHA workers who covered 41,92,801 households between August 2025 and January 2026 across districts, focused on early detection of 14 non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including hypertension, diabetes, cancer, and other chronic conditions among adults, besides anaemia among younger persons.
The Health Department is set to expand Gruha Arogya to Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) areas.
As per the screening results in districts, hypertension and Type II diabetes accounted for the bulk of diagnoses. From August 2025 till January 2026, the Health Department screened 76,07,739 people aged above 30 for hypertension, and 72,75,369 for diabetes. Of them, 19,94,530 were diagnosed with hypertension, and 14,78,842 with diabetes - underscoring the magnitude of the non-communicable disease (NCD) burden.
District-wise data revealed significant regional variations.
Belagavi recorded the highest absolute number of hypertension cases, with 3,24,403 diagnoses from 14,15,047 screenings. Mysuru reported 1,87,089 cases from 4,35,504 screened. Chitradurga showed a high detection proportion with 1,34,725 diagnosed among 2,23,679 screened. Udupi and Tumakuru also reported substantial numbers.
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