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    Surviving infancy: Infant mortality in India

    There has been a definite drop in infant mortality in India. But how much of this is the effect of the national public health initiative is still unclear.

    February 21, 2011 / 12:24 IST

    By: Dinesh Narayanan/ Forbes India

    There has been a definite drop in infant mortality in India. But how much of this is the effect of the national public health initiative is still unclear.

    India may be brimming with optimism about her economy, but she still struggles to save her infants from an untimely death. UNICEF had reported a year ago that about 5,000 children under the age of five die every day in India. Nearly half of all children in India are malnourished. This well-known fact re-emerged on the public radar last December when Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen commented on it. He said Indian leaders should pay attention to reducing chronic under-nourishment rather than pursuing higher growth targets.

    The fight to reduce infant and maternal mortality in India has been largely unsuccessful because of chronic poverty and a weak public health care system. The situation has, however, improved in the past few years as the government began to spend more money on and started paying more attention to the public health care system. India
    first published: Feb 19, 2011 12:35 pm

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