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Incidences of diseases in slum areas
The slums of Ahmedabad is considered as the third largest slums across Gujarat. the population living in slum areas was 10,74,465 (2008) which is 55.80% of the total population living in Ahmedabad. Eastern part of Ahmedabad which includes areas like Nikol, Bapunagar, Gomtipur, Rakhial, Odhav, Vastral, Hatkeshwar, Ramol, Hathijan, etc. where the slum population is maximum which is 7,08,750 which consists of 77% of the total slums in Ahmedabad. The disease trend rate was studied for the year 2008-2011 for four major diseases like gastroenteritis, typhoid, jaundice and malaria. This studied was classified under different zones in Ahmedabad particularly, central, west, new-west, north, south and east. Also, a total of 63 wards from different areas were part of this survey

Gastroenteritis
Majority of the population in all the zones had a disease rate from 0-100 (per 1000) except the eastern zone and south zone. The disease rate in east zone was 369 while the disease rate in south zone was 303.

Typhoid
The disease rate for typhoid in all the zones was lying between 0-50 or 50-100 except for east zone, the disease rate for east zone was higher and was around 120.

Jaundice
Compared to other disease jaundice had the worst disease rate. the disease rate exceeded 500 in the north and the central zone. the disease rate in jamalpur ward of central zone had an disease rate of 898, while in behrampur and danilimda ward of south zone had an disease rate 1025 and 802 respectively.

Malaria
The reports for malaria were normal compared to all the other diseases, all the wards in all the zones had had disease rate 0-50 or 50-100 except for east and south zones, these zones had slightly higher rate lying in 101-200.