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Children’s health ‘ignored’ in India

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May 13, 2008

More than half of children below the age of 5 in India do not get the health care they require, as per the report by Save the Children. Save the Children ranks India alongside Ghana, the under developed country when it comes to giving basic health care to its children below 5 years of age. The annual report looks at whether developing countries are delivering health care efficiently to children.

It found the Philippines; a south Asian country was performing best with almost 69 percent of children able to get access to health care. Ethiopia ranks last - only 16 percent of children below 5 get health care when they need it.

Although India has reduced child its mortality rate by 34 percent since the year 1990, Indian girls are 61 percent more likely than boys to die between the ages of one and five. Injustice of health care among male and female children is accountable for this situation, the report says. The report says experts forecast that over 60 percent of the nearly ten million children who die each year could be saved by delivering basic health services through a health facility or community health worker.

“A child’s probability of reaching its fifth birthday should not depend on the country or community where it is born,” said Jasmine Whitbread, Save the Children’s chief executive.

“We need to do a better job of achievement the poorest children with basic health measures like vaccines, anti-biotics and skilled care at childbirth,” she commented.


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