Need to create awareness about critical newborn care: Nirupama Sarma India accounts for 3,09,000 baby deaths every year on the first day of their birth, 29 per cent of such deaths around the world. What are the factors responsible for this and how can it be fixed? Save the Children's advocacy director Nirupama Sarma joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue.

Q. What are the factors responsible for this and how can it be fixed? Asked by: yamini



A. The fact that India alone accounts for 29 percent of the world's newborn deaths is a big challenge but at the same time an opportunity to change things too. Many challenges remain including overlapping government structures, lack of accountability of service providers, inequities in service delivery, health worker shortages and capacities, rapid urbanization and policies that currently prohibit the use of some of the most effective interventions to save babies, such as chlorhexidine, Kangaroo Mother Care and antenatal steroids....more    
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12:27 PM, Aug 09, 2012

Dog rescues newborn baby in Ghana
by IANS
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India's second heaviest newborn weighs 5.6 kilos

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US: Twins born a year apart

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Woman gives birth on plane, tries to disown baby
by IANS
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Newborn dies as docs allegedly cut off her arm Hospital authorities have been denying the allegation. ...  
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5 newborns die mysteriously in Andhra hospital

Parents allege that faulty incubators was the reason. ...
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Playschools offering admissions to newborns Parents can now get their newly-born babies enrolled in schools in advance. ...  
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Now, Govt to give newborns IDs with DNA details A 10,000 new born babies are snatched from their families every year. ...  
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Man sells son to perform wife's last rites Bipin didn’t have money to perform his wife’s last rites so he sold his son. ...  
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