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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | How India can reduce its alarming child mortality rate

How India can reduce its alarming child mortality rate

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published Published on May 29, 2019   modified Modified on May 29, 2019
-The Telegraph

What is most worrying is that some of the top causes of these deaths are preventable infectious diseases

A progress report does not always bring cheer. A Lancet study showed that death of children under five in India went down from 2.5 million in the year 2000 to 1.2 million in 2015. Unfortunately, this still meant that India had the highest child mortality rate in the world in 2015. The study also found big disparities among states — Assam reported nearly eight times the number of deaths as Goa — and among districts within the same state. What is most worrying is that some of the top causes of these deaths were preventable infectious diseases such as pneumonia and diarrhoea. This highlights, once again, the need to increase India’s paltry health budget. But richer states fared better than poorer ones. Health is a state subject, and political differences between dispensations at the Centre and the state often mean that even the meagre sum allocated in the budget is not fully utilized. For example, the decision of many states to pull out of the Centrally-funded Ayushman Bharat scheme. An increased health budget and better coordination among the Centre and the states would also help in dealing with other causes of child mortality like measles and meningitis that would require greater vaccine coverage.

The leading cause of infant mortality, though, was complications arising from premature birth, which makes babies more susceptible to infections. A healthy baby is the result of a healthy pregnancy. Proper care of an expectant mother is thus key to a child’s survival. This, in turn, leads to India’s inability to root out child marriages — 40 per cent women between the ages of 20 and 49 are married before the legal age according to the National Family Health Survey. Underage mothers stand less chance of carrying their babies to full term.

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The Telegraph, 21 May, 2019, https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/how-india-can-reduce-its-alarming-child-mortality-rate/cid/1690888?ref=health_home-template


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