India’s record is shameful

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India’s record is shameful​

By Sunita Vakil | Published: October 10, 2010

Despite a sustained period of high growth, child mortality remains a shameful paradox in an India that aspires to occupy a larger global economic space. Unfortunately, we have an astonishingly bad record of child and infant care in India, which is home to the highest number of children dying before they are five. Half of these children die even before they are 28 days old, that’s a quarter of such deaths worldwide.
The governments, both central and state, have been proclaiming time and again that health and education are their top priority. But year after year UNICEF’s report, State of the world’s children, paints a grim picture. This year’s report, released some days back, is no different and the indices for India remain as shocking as ever. This once again reminds us of the vast gulf that separates official claim and reality. The report that records 17.26 lakh under five deaths with a mortality rate of 66 in India, paints an acutely embarrassing picture of infant and child mortality in the country. The shocking statistics once more proves that India faces a major challenge in healthcare. There is no gainsaying that although we have made impressive strides in many areas such as space exploration, information technology and stem cell research, we have been unable to check under five mortality.
At the same time, there has been some slow and lopsided progress. The rate dropped from 116 deaths per 1000 children under five in 1990 to 69 per 1000 children in 2008. But it is still a long way from the national target of 39 deaths for every 1000 births. This has also been pointed out by the latest UN under five mortality estimates, which recognise the unusual challenge India faces in child survival warning, that the modest improvement is insufficient. “India is making insufficient progress…under five mortality is at least 40 deaths per 1000 live births and the average annual rate of reduction is at least 10 percent, but less that 4 percent,” the report states. Indeed, the recent study by UNICEF highlights the fact that child mortality is the biggest challenge that India needs to overcome to achieve the millennium development goals. And since India is a fervent advocate of UN development goals, it now seems a distant dream that we can achieve the required target. And, this despite the existence of a planned economy coupled with a much touted local administrative mechanism.

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[Chanakyaa]

Socom if u would have invested half ur energy in bringing up Positives of Pakistan, rather Negatives of India ( which exist along with far worse realities ) You would have been much appreciated and satisfied.

Why do People tend to be more happy on neighbours failure rather one's own success ?? Especially when u urself have far worse acenarios ???

 

[parasite]

Don worry we are on right track. Some stats-->

CBR--> 23.4 (21.76-->2009)
CDR--> 8 (6.23 --2009)
IMR--> 54 (2007)
2009-->
IMR: 30.15 deaths/1,000 live births
Male: 34.61 deaths/1,000 live births
Female: 25.18 deaths/1,000 live births
Life Expectancy at birth -
Males - 62.3 (2005); 67.46 (2009)
Females - 65.3 (2005); 72.61 (2009)
Neonatal mortality rate : 37 per 1000 live births (2006); 34 per 1000 live births (2009)
Early neonatal mortality rate : 28 per 1000 live births (2006)
Under 5 mortality rate : 72 per 1000 (2007); 64 per 1000 (2009)
General fertility rate - 93.3 (2006)
General marital fertility rate - 111.7 (2009)
Total feritility rate - 2.72(2009)
GRR--> 1.3 (2006)
NRR--> 1.4
MMR--> 301/lakh Live Birth(2003); 2009 --> 254
CPR--> 58%
Seks ratio--> 933(2001); 927 (2009)
Least- Haryana
Least child seks ratio- Punjab
Favourable:Kerala,Manipur,Sikkim
Population--> Rural(72%): Urban(28%)

I am hoping for better figures after this census...

 

[Novice09]

Why Indians stare, stare and keep staring???

do I need to say more...

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Despite a sustained period of high growth, child mortality remains a shameful paradox in an India that aspires to occupy a larger global economic space. Unfortunately, we have an astonishingly bad record of child and infant care in India, which is home to the highest number of children dying before they are five. Half of these children die even before they are 28 days old, that’s a quarter of such deaths worldwide.

It's easy to criticise, but what is the solution?

The truth is that in such large countries as China and India, even a small percentage turns into a huge real number. Large percentages turn into enormous real numbers.

One way to help this problem is urbanisation, i.e. attracting the people from the countryside into big cities. In that way, medical help will always be close by, and it will be a more effective use of infrastructure, such as roads/electricity/water etc.

India is already investing heavily in industrial capacity, so hopefully that will lead to more urbanisation. Also, there can never be enough investment in infrastructure.

 

[third eye]

It's easy to criticise, but what is the solution?

The truth is that in such large countries as China and India, even a small percentage turns into a huge real number. Large percentages turn into enormous real numbers.

One way to help this problem is urbanisation, i.e. attracting the people from the countryside into big cities. In that way, medical help will always be close by, and it will be a more effective use of infrastructure, such as roads/electricity/water etc.

India is already investing heavily in industrial capacity, so hopefully that will lead to more urbanisation. Also, there can never be enough investment in infrastructure.

CD,

Please don't burst the 'bubble of despair' people would like to associate with India & China.

 

[LaBong]

Leaving aside the the intention and nationality of thread creator, this issue is rather serious. There was time when being economically weak, India couldn't take care of all her children. Now when we are economically progressing, let's not hide these under the carpet but face the situation like man and work more harder to overcome it.

If we have been able to come this far, I'm sure we can walk that extra mile as well.