Diarrhoea, pneumonia kill one child every two minutes in India
In 2016, almost 261,000 Indian children died
before their fifth birthday due to diarrhoea
or pneumonia, both preventable diseases. This is the highest toll taken
anywhere in the world by the two diseases--a fifth of their global
burden--according to the 2018 Pneumonia & diarrhoea Progress Report,
released on November 12, 2018, which was World
Pneumonia Day.
This
means that about 735 Indian children died everyday of either disease in
2016--one child every two minutes. Globally, pneumonia and diarrhoea cause a
quarter of deaths in children under five and fighting them together can
drastically reduce child mortality across the world.
India
has had mixed success in the prevention, control and treatment of diarrhoea and
pneumonia in the year to 2016: Immunisation coverage improved but there was a
decline in treatment indicators, said the report by the International Vaccine
Access Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
This
report analyses how effectively countries are delivering 10 key interventions
to prevent and treat pneumonia and diarrhoea--breastfeeding, vaccination,
access to care, use of antibiotics, oral rehydration solution (ORS) and zinc
supplementation. Read
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