Trimming the Cost of Healthcare: The Unsung Role of the Nail Cutter”
A Nail Cutter can contribute to significant savings in health care costs by reducing the spread of communicable diseases.
(Co-author Dr. C.J. Akash Kumar, M.B.B.S.)
Personal hygiene, which includes regularly cutting nails, is critical in preventing various communicable diseases. Thus a nail cutter can significantly reduce disease burden, next only to handwashing, especially in developing countries like India.
Communicable diseases pose a substantial challenge to the public health system in India. India allocated Rs. 86,175 Cr( $10.77) Billion for public health care. Despite spending significant amounts of money on rural communicable diseases, the burden of communicable and infectious diseases remains at 27.5% for three decades in India.
Major Infectious Diseases can be transmitted through nails.
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