In India, one million children under five years of age have been rescued from pneumonia, diarrhea, neonatal infection, death due to choking / trauma, measles and tetanus during birth. This has been revealed in the study published in the latest issue of Lancet magazine.
The magazine has done the first study, called 'India's Million Death Study', in which there has been a direct study of changes in the cases of death of children due to certain reasons in India.
According to a release issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the study said that the death of children under the National Health Mission showed decline. Deficiency of pneumonia and diarrhea decreased by more than 60 percent (due to effective treatment).
At the time of birth, difficulties for breathing in newborn babies and 66 percent of cases of death due to trauma due to childbirth (mostly due to birth in hospitals) decreased.
Cases of measles and tetanus decreased up to 90 percent (mostly due to special vaccination campaign).
The study of lancet states that the decline in infant mortality rate (per thousand births per year) has been recorded. In the year 2000, 45 such cases were registered, which were 27 per thousand in 2015. It recorded an annual decline of 3.3 percent. Similarly, the death rate from one month to 59 months of age has dropped from 45.2 in 2000 to 19.6 in 2015. This decline is 5.4 percent annual
According to the study, the death of pneumonia from one month to 59 months was 63 percent decrease. 66 percent of diarrhea deaths and cases of measles deaths are more than 90 percent. Gone Due to pneumonia and diarrhea in children between one and 59 months, there was a significant reduction in the number of deaths from 2010 to 2015. This average fall is 8-10 percent annually at the national level. Deterioration is particularly visible in rural areas and poor states.
It was reported in the study that 'India's Million Death Study' directly monitors the causes of death in 1.3 million households. Since 2001, 900 personnel interviewed nearly one lakh people living in all these houses, where children died. About 53 thousand cases of death were reported in the first month of birth and 42 thousand cases of infant deaths were registered in 59 months before birth.