India’s cities, their non-communicable disease burden
The recent case where a Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) bus driver passed away after cardiac arrest while on duty, has set off discussions on rising poor health outcomes in our cities.Our cities are spread over pockets and layers. These pockets house the most marginalised and vulnerable urban citizens such as informal workers and migrant workers. Our cities run, literally and figuratively, because of bike-borne gig workers, cab and auto drivers, bus drivers and conductors. Our cities shine and are clean because of sanitation workers who are awake before the city does to clean the roads, clear the garbage bins and transport the garbage to sorting stations, waste lands, or landfills, all while staying deprived of hygiene and nutrition while at work. Most of them are not o...