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90,000 Fewer Indian Infants Died In 2016 Compared To 2015

There has been an 8% decline in infant mortality rate (IMR), infant deaths per 1,000 live births, from 2015 to 2016,...

Swagata Yadavar30 Sept 2017 1:03 AM IST

A low birth weight baby at Sick New Born Care Unit, Kashida, East Singhbhum district, Jharkhand. The death of 70 infants...

Swagata Yadavar25 Sept 2017 11:30 AM IST

A health worker collects the blood sample of a child at mass screening for malaria at Budabirmaha, a hamlet in...

Swagata Yadavar16 Sept 2017 11:30 AM IST

Heart disease is still the leading cause of death in India, killing 1.7 million Indians in 2016, according to the 2016...

Swagata Yadavar15 Sept 2017 10:28 PM IST

Six million fewer children died in 2016 than in 1990. That’s more than the total number of children in France. ...

Sanjukta Nair14 Sept 2017 11:30 AM IST

A young cancer patient rests in the children's ward at the Cancer Centre Welfare Home and Research Institute in Kolkata....

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More than 50% more patients were admitted and almost twice the number of babies were delivered in a month in...

Chaitanya Mallapur31 Aug 2017 9:53 PM IST

The death of 52 infants over 30 days at Jamshedpur's Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College hospital in Jharkhand,...