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The Supreme Court connected Friday (December 12, 2025) sought a effect from the Centre connected a plea filed by a retired AIIMS oncologist to state crab a nationwide notifiable disease.
A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant issued notices to the Union Health Ministry, State governments and Union Territories connected the petition filed by Dr. Anurag Shrivastava, represented by advocator Gaurav Kumar Bansal. The plea highlighted that 90% of India’s colonisation was presently not covered successful immoderate systematic crab surveillance mechanism.
Mr. Bansal submitted that lone 17 retired of 36 States and Union Territories had taken measures to state crab a notifiable illness nether their nationalist wellness laws.
“This inconsistency has created a unsafe patchwork system, leaving a immense bulk of the country’s colonisation without the benefits of mandatory crab lawsuit reporting, which is the cornerstone of effectual illness surveillance, aboriginal detection and centralised data-driven argumentation making,” the counsel argued.
The petition said the non-notification has created a terrible information achromatic hole. “Without mandatory reporting, India’s National Cancer Registry Programme (NCRP) operates with chronic and terrible under-reporting,” it said.
It underscored that systematic crab information compilation covers lone astir 10% of the population.
“Approximately 90% of India’s colonisation remains extracurricular the sum of immoderate systematic crab information compilation and, by extension, the benefits of a cohesive nationalist crab power programme. This information shortage results successful a gross underestimation of the nationalist crab burden, starring to inaccurate argumentation planning, misallocation of scarce resources, and an inability to efficaciously implement, monitor, and measure life-saving screening and aboriginal detection programs,” the petitioner argued.
Compounding the situation was the rampant dispersed of unsafe misinformation. The petition referred to the promotion of ‘remedies’ specified arsenic cattle urine arsenic a crab cure successful this context.
