Over one million children under the
age of 5 die every year in India
New Delhi: The government has said that
more than a million children under the age of five die in India every year and
more than half of the deaths occur within the first 28 days with prematurity
and neonatal infections being the major causes.
“According to Sample Registration
System (SRS) 2013, 1.26 million children under the age of five are estimated to
die in India every year. 57 per cent of under-five deaths occur in (the)
neonatal period, which is within the first 28 days of life, the major causes
being prematurity and low birth-weight, neonatal infections, birth asphyxia and
birth trauma,” Health Minister J P Nadda said in a written reply in the Rajya
Sabha.
It said the major causes of under-five
deaths in post-neonatal period are pneumonia and diarrhoea. With over 3.8 lakh
children falling prey to pneumonia annually in the country, India tops a list
of 15 countries in terms of total under-five deaths due to the disease He said
the government has initiated an SMS based electronic vaccine intelligence
network (e-VIN) to enable real time monitoring of vaccine stocks at 4,476 cold
chain storage points.
These storage points exist across all
160 districts of three states – Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh –
under Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) Health System Strengthening
support.
He said that the Under-five Mortality
Rate (U5MR) is 49 per 1000 live births. To sharpen the focus on the low
performing districts, 184 High Priority Districts (HPDs) have been identified
for implementation of Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child Health+ Adolescent
(RMNCH+A) interventions for achieving improved maternal and child health
outcomes, the minister said.
Mr Nadda said Birth Defects
Surveillance System (BDSS) is being established to serve as a tool for
identifying congenital anomalies and it is a collaborative effort between the
government, WHO and CDC.
According to Registrar General of India, SRS 2013, the
Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) is 40 per 1000 live births while the the Neonatal
Mortality Rate (NMR) is 28 per 1000 live births, he added.
Source: www.zeenews.india.com
29.04.2016
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