Question

33. According to UNICEF,how
many children die every year in
India from preventable
infections?
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Answer 1

Answer:

Approximately 3.1 million children die from undernutrition each year (UNICEF, 2018a). Hunger and undernutrition contribute to more than half of global child deaths, as undernutrition can make children more vulnerable to illness and exacerbate disease (UNICEF, 2018a).

Explanation:

Answer 2

With the birth of 25 million children each year India accounts for nearly one fifth of the world’s annual child births. Every minute one of those babies dies.

Nearly 46 per cent of all maternal deaths and 40 per cent of neonatal deaths happen during labour or the first 24 hours after birth. Pre-maturity (35 per cent), neonatal infections (33 per cent), birth asphyxia (20 per cent) and congenital malformations (9 per cent) are among the major causes of new-born deaths.

Yet, death during and after delivery is largely preventable by enabling access to skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetric care. In the post-new-born period, survival rates also rise sharply with early and exclusive breastfeeding and immunization against measles and other vaccine preventable diseases.

Nearly 3.5 million babies in India are born too early, 1.7 million babies are born with birth defects, and one million new-borns are discharged each year from Special New-born Care Units (SNCUs). These new-borns remain at high risk of death, stunting, and developmental delay.

India has made progress in the reduction of newborn mortality with it’s share of the global newborn mortality burden coming down from one third of newborn deaths in 1990 to below a quarter of total newborn deaths today. There are nearly nearly one million fewer newborn deaths and ten thousand fewer maternal deaths each month in India in 2017 as compared to 2000. This is a result of more and more women delivering in health facilities.

Just over a decade ago, six out of ten women delivered in their homes, without the support of a skilled birth attendant, putting both themselves and their new-born at risk. Today, this number has reduced threefold with eight out of ten women delivering in a health facility.

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