-TheAlternative.in Over 600 million Indians have no access to toilets - if you line up the countries where open defecation is practised, India leads and also has more than twice the number as the next 18 countries with no access to toilets. The proportion is worse in rural India - where 68% of rural households don't have their own toilets (Source:NSSO, WHO). Why is open defecation an issue? Open defecation has been linked...
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Steps to improve Healthcare in Rural India
-Press Information Bureau (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare) Healthcare for all, particularly for the rural areas has been a priority for the Government. The health indicators like Infant mortality rate (IMR), Total Fertility Rate (TFR), and nutritional status of children under 3 years including prevalence of anemia amongst them and pregnant women in rural area are considerably poor as compared to urban areas. The key health indicators are as under: Public...
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-Outlook Aizawl: At least 473 infants below one year died in Mizoram during April to December last year while ten mothers died during pregnancy and delivery over the same period, a senior official said today. According to Dr Gordon Zohmingthanga, Mission Director of the state National Health Mission, there were 14,825 pregnant women while 16,156 new-born babies reported in the state during the period. "The Sample Registration System Survey, 2012 revealed that the...
More »Are some states under-reporting pentavalent vaccine deaths?-Kundan Pandey
-Down to Earth RTI reponse of Union health ministry shows states with better health track record have reported higher number of vaccine deaths How accurate is the enumeration of deaths caused by the five-in-one pentavalent vaccine in India? Reports from different states show information about adverse events following immunization (AEFI) is not very reliable. It would be difficult to reach any conclusion about the efficacy of the vaccine on the basis of...
More »Unsatisfactory decline in child mortality: SRS 2012
The more things change, the more they remain the same. Probably, this can be said about the ‘Sample Registration System Statistical Report 2012', which carries the latest figures on the social sector by far. The report has provided some interesting trends in child mortality indicators for India and its bigger states during 2012 (see the links below). It says that states like Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, which have consistently...
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