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Things to know about maternal and child health in India

Everything isn’t fine with the maternal and child health sector in the country.

GN Bureau | August 17, 2016

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Ministry of health and family welfare in its annual (2015-2016) report has revealed the following:

• Infant mortality rate in India is 28/1000 live births which means approximately 7.3 lakh deaths, annually.

• The major causes of infants deaths in our country are: Infections (31%), Prematurity (35%), Asphyxia (20%), Congenital (9%) and Diarrhoea (2%)

• Malnutrition is the underlying cause of 33% of child deaths.

• 29.4 percent of under-five children are underweight, 38.7 percent are stunted and 15.1 percent are acutely malnourished. About 4.6% of children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition.

• Only 44.6% are breastfed within one hour of birth.

• Complimentary feeding starts only for 50.5% children on time.

• Pneumonia and diarrhoea are leading childhood killers, responsible for 15 percent and 12 percent of child (0-5 years) deaths, respectively.

• Only 54.4% children with diarrhoea in preceding 2 weeks received ORS and 76.9 percent of children suffering from acute respiratory illness received the treatment.

• Assam has the highest maternal mortality rate (300) followed by Uttar Pradesh/Uttarakhand (285) and Rajasthan (244).

• Additional efforts are required for lowering the MMR in the above mentioned states along with Odisha (222), Madhya Pradesh/ Chhattisgarh (221) and Bihar/Jharkhand (208), which have quite high MMR as compared to the national level.

• Institutional deliveries have risen sharply from 47 percent in 2007-08 to over 78.7 percent in 2013-14.

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