nashik the nashik municipal corporation nmc has conducted a survey of nearly 290 lakh people living in the slums so far the survey has found over 5647 people above the age of 50 years who have serious ailments like cancer diabetes and blood pressure almost 52 2976 of them are women while the remaining 48 2671 are men living in the slumsof 5647 people suffering from ailments most are suffering from blood pressure 3561 followed by diabetes 2086 and cancer 40 moreover it was found that proportionately more women have blood pressure problems when compared to men of total 3561 patients of blood pressure 1923 are women while 1698 are men however cancer is more prevalent among men of total 40 cancer patients in the slum 26 are men diabetes affected about the same number form the either sex 1047 men and 1039 women the survey also focused on children below 2 years of age with vaccination and pregnant women the health teams conducted checkups of 1657 pregnant women in the slums in during the survey nmc teams found 117 people with fever and handed out medicines nearly 3 lakh people in the city live in slums and the nmc survey has already covered 287 lakh individuals 68800 houses in 150 slums over 100 teams of health officials and other staff were deployed after the survey in the slum we will cover the old city areas and poor urban areas the population in these areas is expected to be over 1 lakh said nmc officials