Bihar Affairs
Bihar has more than 50 lakh patients of hepatitis that claims approximately 15 lakh lives across the world every year.
Revealing this figure on the occasion ofWorld Hepatitis Day, Dr Dineshwar Prasad, the principal ofGovernment Ayurvedic CollegeandHospital(GACH), claimed that 5 out of every 100 people suffered from the disease in Bihar.
Hepatitis, which may happen due to consumption of alcohol, epilepsy drugs, and AIDS or TB medicines, can be deadly in case of late detection. It has four types hepatitis A, B, C and E.