New Delhi: More than 140,000 people died from measles worldwide in 2018, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and US authorities said on December 5, th...
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India saw 2nd-highest number of pneumonia deaths of children under age five: UN
United Nations: India had the second-highest number of deaths of children under the age of five in 2018 due to pneumonia, a curable and preventable di...
Pneumonia epidemic is deadliest child killer: aid groups
Paris: Pneumonia is the world’s deadliest child killer, with a “forgotten epidemic” claiming one young life every 39 seconds, intern...
New Delhi’s air pollution “visible killer”: UN official
United Nations: India is grappling with a “public health disaster” and the air pollution levels in New Delhi are a “visible killer&#...
Providing right food key to addressing malnutrition: Minister
West Bengal: Calling for a change in the way malnutrition is understood, West Bengal Women and Child Development Minister on 1st November said providi...
Malnutrition behind 69 per cent deaths among children below 5 years in India: UNICEF
Malnutrition caused 69 per cent of deaths of children below the age of five in India, according to a UNICEF report released on Wednesday. In its repor...
Policy being drafted to build breastfeeding, childcare rooms: Delhi Govt apprises High Court
The move to build baby-feeding rooms is aimed at creating the environment that supports, protects and enables the mother to nurse her child in a safe,...
International Midwife Day: 30 trained Midwives from Govt’s public health facilities receive graduating certificate
Hyderabad: As many as 30 trained Midwives from state government’s public health facilities graduated from a specially designed 18-month program conduc...
Step up efforts to eliminate measles outbreak: WHO
While rubella causes irreversible birth defects, measles is a killer disease. New Delhi: Amidst increasing cases and outbreaks of measles globally, t...
29 lakh children in India miss first dose of measles vaccine: UNICEF
An estimated 169 million children missed out on the first dose of the measles vaccine between 2010 and 2017, or 21.1 million children a year on an ave...