-The Hindu India has sustained its progress in reducing stunting and the number of underweight children in the last decade The Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey (CNNS) report, brought out recently by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, assumes salience, especially against two important factors. One, the latest Global Hunger Index (GHI), 2019 ranks India at the 102nd position out of 117 countries. Two, India’s past performance in reducing child undernutrition has...
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The drop in the maternal mortality RATio is just the first step
-The Telegraph Policymakers need to look at women’s reproductive health comprehensively Light seems to have finally appeared at the end of a long, dark tunnel for India. According to the latest Sample RegistRATion System report, the maternal mortality RATio has declined by eight points between 2014-16 and 2015-17. In real numbers, 2,000 deaths have been averted per year in this period. One of the reasons behind this success is the increased access...
More »Key sales numbers show rural demand may dip further -P Vaidyanathan Iyer
-The Indian Express Warning signs across FMCG, tractors & 2-wheelers, gold, real rural wages THE GOVERNMENT Friday claimed that a significant divergence in levels of consumption and direction of change prompted it to withhold the findings of the survey on household consumption expenditure for July 2017-June 2018. But all major indicators of rural demand suggest the situation has only worsened since the beginning of financial year 2019-20, and the economy is...
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-The Hindu Business Line India’s over-dependence on private players for vaccines is promoting irRATional use and restricting access that leads to unacceptable fatalities The death of an eight-year-old girl, Anju, this August after denial of anti-rabies vaccine at Agra’s Sarojini Naidu Medical College (SNMC) is followed by the admission by Health Ministry that fatality RATe for rabies in India is 100 per cent. Although the circumstance of Anju’s death is particularly Kafkaesque...
More »Odisha ranks second in Maternal Mortality RATio decline, but far behind national average
-The New Indian Express Odisha has recorded significant decline in Maternal Mortality RATio (MMR) in the last six years but still has a long way to go to catch up with the National average. BHUBANESWAR: Odisha has recorded significant decline in Maternal Mortality RATio (MMR) in the last six years but still has a long way to go to catch up with the National average. The MMR has declined from 222 (per...
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