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....
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06:25 PM, May 07, 2013
Poor management, financial irregularities and weak implementation are plaguing India's massive state-run scheme to feed children, a government audit has found, hindering the country's efforts to fight malnutrition in almost half its child population. ...
03:40 AM, Mar 08, 2013
It's called a 'bamboolance' by locals - a makeshift ambulance in Nandurbar district in Maharashtra. For ailing villagers, it's the only mode to reach the nearest primary health centre which is a good 25 kilometers away. ...
08:57 AM, Feb 08, 2013
As 2012 comes to an end, CNN-IBN takes a look at the key health issues of the year - from the fight against polio that India can take pride in to the dismal malnutrition figures that shame the nation. ...
09:22 AM, Dec 27, 2012
Press Council of India Chairman Markendya Katju on Sunday hit out at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi describing as "phoney" his claims of development in the state and saying its malnutrition rate was worse than Somalia. ...
04:29 AM, Dec 24, 2012
With the BJP's crisis coming less than three weeks ahead of the Gujarat polls, it's opposition, the Congress, too has landed itself in a rather embarrassing position. One of its advertisement showcasing malnutrition in the state lifted the picture of a Sri Lankan child. ...
07:14 AM, Nov 27, 2012
New Delhi: Terming the rising malnutrition figures in India as a wake-up call, President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said checking it alone can help the country achieve the target of sustained and inclusive growth. Launching the first-ever national Information, Education and Communication (IEC) campaign against malnutrition in India, the President called for a concerted drive against malnutrition and said utmost priority must be accorded to prevent it. Prime Minister Manmohan...
09:59 PM, Nov 19, 2012
Mumbai: As the nation remembers Mahatma Gandhi on his birth anniversary, there is a shame for the India he fought for. CNN-IBN travelled to Maharashtra's malnutrition capital Melghat, where thousands of kids continue to suffer from malnutrition. In June 2012, Surjabai Tota, 18 years of age and weiging just 28 kg and her new born daughter weighing a little under a a kilo, died. The deaths uncovered a little known...
09:21 AM, Oct 02, 2012
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has sparked off a new controversy, this time by his comment over malnourishment. In an interview to the Wall Street Journal, the leader said Gujarati women are malnourished as they are more beauty conscious than health conscious. When asked why women in Gujarat suffered from malnutrition, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader replied, "The middle class is more beauty-conscious than health-conscious. That is...
09:17 PM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has landed himself in a controversy by his comment on malnutrition, blaming 'beauty-conscious' girls. Grabbing the opportunity, the Congress has slammed Modi saying his focus has always been on GDP and not on health. "It is clear that health is not a priority in Gujarat. He talks only about GDP. Narendra Modi has been unsuccessful in dealing with education and health," Congress leader...
11:33 AM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narender Modi is making headlines over a controversial statement to The Wall Street Journal. He linked the state's malnutrition to vegetarianism and figure-conscious girls. "Gujarat is by and large a vegetarian state. And secondly, Gujarat is also a middle-class state. The middle-class is more beauty-conscious than health-conscious " that is a challenge. If a mother tells her daughter to have milk, they'll have a fight....
09:15 AM, Aug 30, 2012
Kolkata: Amid regular reports of crib deaths in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday claimed there has been a fall in the number of infant deaths in the state. "The reported infant deaths in the state in 2010 was 30,793 which came down drastically to just 18,671 in 2011. The infant mortality rate has come down by 1 percent to 31 percent in the year," Banerjee said while...
08:32 PM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Karnataka Lokayukta police raided the house of an IAS officer and other officials of the Women and Child Welfare Department after CNN-IBN reported on malnutrition deaths in Raichur. The ADGP of the Lokayukta Police said, "We had credible information that the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) run by Women and Child Department was not functioning properly..." "The quality of food was not good. We conducted raids at...
07:01 AM, Mar 10, 2012
Silchar: No work, no pay, no food and left to die, CNN-IBN has exposed hunger deaths in the tea gardens of Silchar in Assam. While the Assam government has rubbished all claims of hunger deaths and reopened the garden on promises, CNN-IBN saw a different story. 35-year-old Ratna Goala is among the ten plantation workers who died out of hunger, lack of medical care and malnutrition in this Assam tea...
06:21 AM, Mar 02, 2012
Silchar: Just weeks after CNN-IBN exposed starvation deaths at a tea garden in Silchar, the Assam government has acted. The government has appointed a one-man inquiry committee to look into the tea estate deaths in Cachar district. The inquiry is to be headed by the additional chief secretary. Four people died as a result of hunger in Silchar as the tea garden in question remained closed for four months. Work...
09:49 PM, Mar 01, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday took a dig at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for alleged inaction on the issue of eradicating malnutrition from the country. "The Prime Minister had admitted in his speech about malnutrition problem in the country and expressed concern over the issue. But what next?," Modi said at the NuTech technological carnival held at Nirma University. "Nothing much has happened on this count," he...
12:40 AM, Feb 17, 2012
Silcher: In a shocking revelation from the northeastern part of the country, CNN-IBN has exposed hunger deaths in the tea gardens of Silcher even as the state government has rubbished the claims of it and reopened the garden. Ratna Goala, a 35-year-old woman, is among the 10 plantation workers who died out of hunger, lack of medical care and malnutrition in the Assam tea garden. "No food, No money, No...
11:13 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Godhra: Hitting out at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his "late realisation" of the malnutrition problem in the country, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi said, instead of "merely making comments on the issue", the PM should provide a solution for it. "Last week, the Prime Minister expressed agony and pain over the issue of malnutrition in the country and said that it was a shame for the country. But actually,...
02:39 AM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: India's children are dying of hunger. One in every 3 Indian kids is malnourished. The prime minister has called this finding a national shame. While releasing the first-ever Citizens' Hunger Report in the capital on Tuesday, the PM said only one in five Indian children had acceptable levels of nutrition. "The problem of malnutrition is a national shame. Despite growth in the GDP, the level of under-nutrition in...
08:01 PM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: India has the highest number of stunted children in the world. Almost 42 per cent of the children in the country numbering over 61 million are malnourished and stunted according to the Hunger and Malnutrition Report released by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Tuesday. The report says that one in three malnourished children in the world is an Indian. The Prime Minister's called the findings...
11:35 AM, Jan 10, 2012
