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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_India
>42%
of India’s children below the age of three are malnourished, almost
twice the statistics of sub-Saharan African region of 28%.[1] World Bank
estimates this figure to be 60 million children out of a global
estimated total of 146 million.[2] Although India’s economy grew 50%
from 2001–2006, its child-malnutrition rate only dropped 1%, lagging
behind countries of similar growth rate.[3] Malnutrition impedes the
social and cognitive development of a child, reducing his educational
attainment and income as an adult.[3] These irreversible damages result
in lower productivity.[3]
>Approximately
1.72 million children die each year before turning one.[4] The under
five mortality rate and infant mortality rate indicators have been
declining, from 202 and 190 deaths per thousand live births respectively
in 1970 to 64 and 50 deaths per thousand live births in 2009.[4][5]
However, this rate of decline is slowing. Reduced funding for
immunization leaves only 43.5% of the young fully immunized.[3]
Infrastructures like hospitals, roads, water and sanitation are lacking
in rural areas.[6] Shortages of healthcare providers, poor intra-partum
and newborn care, diarrheal diseases and acute respiratory infections,
also contribute to the high infant mortality rate.[4] |
