Tag: child mortality in india

By Abdul Bari Masoud New Delhi: An estimated 6.3 million children under 15 years of age died in 2017,or one in every 5 seconds, mostly of preventable causes while India has done remarkably well in  reducing the  child mortality rate. This was revealed in   a new  mortality estimates released by UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Population Division and the World Bank Group simultaneously in New York, : Geneva, and Washington D.C  on  Tuesday. It warned that if  urgent action were not taken, 56 million children under five will die by  2030.   According to the report,...