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Health | How India Cut Neonatal Tetanus Mortality by 99.76% -Charu Bahri

How India Cut Neonatal Tetanus Mortality by 99.76% -Charu Bahri

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published Published on Oct 19, 2015   modified Modified on Oct 19, 2015
-IndiaSpend.com

In 2012, a 12-day-old boy (we will call him “Baby Boy”) in Assam’s Sivasagar district could not be given his feed because he had lockjaw—his face muscles went rigid, making it impossible for him to open his mouth. As the spasms spread from Baby Boy’s jaw downwards, his body writhed and went into violent spasms, advanced symptoms of the bacterial infection called tetanus.

It’s been about three years, but Jenita Baruah, 39, remembers Baby Boy well. He was the last neonatal tetanus case that Baruah—an assistant professor of community medicine at the Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh—saw.

In the 48 hours it had taken the mother to get to the paediatrics clinic of Assam Medical College from the neighbouring district, Baby Boy’s condition considerably worsened.

“When he was brought in, he was feverish, with an elevated respiratory and heart rate and the spasms had become so severe and brisk they caused his back to arch,” recalled Baruah. At the local public health centre, the health officer had recognised tetanus and also recognised that it needed more skill and intervention than he had at his disposal.

But administering anti-tetanus immunoglobulin, intravenous fluids, anticonvulsants and oxygen did not help. Baby Boy died five days after he was admitted, one of 588 babies who succumbed to tetanus in 2012.
 
Tragic though his death was, Baruah never saw another case again.

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IndiaSpend.com, 17 October, 2015

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