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Fact check: When PM Modi got Swachh Bharat Mission impact a bit wrong -Abantika Ghosh

-The Indian Express

PM Modi said, “World Health Organisation has said that 3 lakh deaths of babies have been averted by the Swachh Bharat Mission." However, he overstated the facts, albeit by a small margin.

New Delhi: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi referred to a World Health Organisation report lauding Swachh Bharat Mission for saving the lives of 3 lakh babies in his Independence Day speech on Wednesday, he had overstated the facts, albeit by a small margin.

In a statement issued earlier this month, the global health body did shower high praise on the prime minister’s pet cleanliness drive, but with the proviso that should there be 100 percent implementation by 2019, only then 3 lakh child deaths would be averted. The exact words of the WHO statement were: “WHO lauds India’s commitment to accelerated coverage of safe sanitation services which, assuming 100% coverage is achieved by October 2019, could avert up to 300 000 deaths due to diarrheal disease and protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) since the country launched the Swachh Bharat Mission in 2014.”

In his Independence Day Speech, while reiterating his government’s commitment to the cleanliness mission that he had first unveiled in his maiden speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort on August 15, 2014, Modi had referred to the WHO report as one of the certificates of the success of the mission. “World Health Organisation has said that 3 lakh deaths of babies have been averted by the Swachh Bharat Mission,” the prime minister said in his speech.

The conclusions had been reached from the initial results of a WHO modelling study on the health impact of the Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin (SBM-G). WHO analysed that India’s accelerated coverage of safe sanitation services, and its determination to end open defecation, would have a substantial effect on the burden of diarrheal disease and PEM by reducing mortality and accumulative Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) – the sum of the years of life lost due to premature mortality and years lost due to disability or ill-health.

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