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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Pandemic Estimates of Orphaned, Abandoned Kids Keep Increasing

Pandemic Estimates of Orphaned, Abandoned Kids Keep Increasing

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published Published on Jul 24, 2021   modified Modified on Jul 25, 2021

-TheCitizen.in

At least 25,000 children lost their mother to covid in the past year

An estimated 1.5 million children in 21 countries, including 119,000 in India, suffered the death of their primary or secondary caregiver between April 2020 and March 2021, according to a recent study.

Published in the Lancet medical journal, the study titled ‘Global minimum estimates of children affected by COVID-19’ estimates that 25,500 children in India lost their mother to covid in the past year, while 90,751 lost their father and 12 lost both their parents.

The study was published in collaboration with the US National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health. In a press release the NIH stated that “traumatic experiences, such as the loss of a parent or caregiver, are associated with increases in substance use, mental health conditions, and other behavioural and chronic health conditions.”

“Though the trauma a child experiences after the loss of a parent or caregiver can be devastating, there are evidence-based interventions that can prevent further adverse consequences, such as substance use, and we must ensure that children have access to these interventions,” says NIDA director Nora D. Volkow in the report.

In May the Union Ministry for Women and Child Development said that 577 children in India were orphaned between April 1, 2021 and May 25, 2021 alone.

Minister Smriti Irani had tweeted then that the “GOI is committed to support and protect every vulnerable child due to loss of both parents to Covid-19.” The ministry claims to have relied on data reported by states and union territories.

In July the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights came out with its own report, which found that at least 2,029 children in Delhi had been orphaned due to covid. Most had lost their father.

The DCPCR stated that “Of these, 67 children are those who have lost both their parents whereas 651 children have lost their mother due to Covid and 1,311 have lost their father due to Covid.”

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TheCitizen.in, 24 July, 2021, https://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/en/NewsDetail/index/9/20676/Pandemic-Estimates-of-Orphaned-Abandoned-Kids-Keep-Increasing?fbclid=IwAR21bB80BNlOHwH1Mx2h4xJt6ksvLaWYgZy4tj-AW9_euxIvGspXDpSk750


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