send mail to support@abhimanu.com mentioning your email id and mobileno registered with us! if details not recieved
Resend Opt after 60 Sec.
By Loging in you agree to Terms of Services and Privacy Policy
Please specify
Please verify your mobile number
Login not allowed, Please logout from existing browser
Please update your name
Subscribe to Notifications
Stay updated with the latest Current affairs and other important updates regarding video Lectures, Test Schedules, live sessions etc..
Your Free user account at abhipedia has been created.
Remember, success is a journey, not a destination. Stay motivated and keep moving forward!
Refer & Earn
Enquire Now
My Abhipedia Earning
Kindly Login to view your earning
Support
The dismal condition of new born care in India can be stated form the fact that out of the 2.8 million newborns who die at birth worldwide, India contributes 700,000, amounting to nearly 25% of the deaths. These are preventable deaths and the government has only recently launched the India New born Action Plan, which shows a policy lacunae and fragmented approach towards tackling health issues.
Further, a slow decline of NMR is a major hurdle to reach the MDG-4 and is reflected in a high and stagnant pre-natal mortality rate, because new-borns has been always missed out inspite of considerable progress in the Reproductive health care in India.
The factors responsible for the high Neo natal Mortality Rate in India are
• The major causes of neonatal health, survival and death are
Short birth interval • It is further compounded by socio-cultural and economic factors which includes rural-urban, poor-rich, and gender differentials, bringing forward the need of a holistic policy to tackle the above problem. • Demographic, educational, socio economic, biological and care seeking are other factors that are responsible for the neonatal mortality in India.
Solution to overcome the issue and way forward
The policy commitment to child health should begin by endorsing the national consensus on accelerated achievement of single digit neonatal mortality and stillbirth rates through a careful synergy of community based intervention centred around the ASHA and anganwadi worker and improved home based and facility based management of sick newborns. The latter has its own HR and skill requirements as well as increased access to technologies. Developing such high quality facility based care for the sick newborn and child will strengthen and be strengthened by better primary and secondary care facility development. • Community based interventions:- Community based interventions strategies must go beyond immunization to include ready availability and access to ORS and Zinc for diarrhea and appropriate antibiotics for pneumonia, better identification and management of anaemia, and screening for developmental defects. • The government’s policy should aim of reducing the newborn (birth to 28 days) mortality rate to single digit long before the 2030 target date. The present death rate is 29 per 1,000 live births. For this are required simple, cost-effective interventions before and immediately after delivery. Government Policy To address the above complications the government inaugurated the Indian Newborn Action Plan (INAP).
Further, the Tamil Nadu model, which has well equipped public health centres manned by doctors and well-trained staff could be imitated in other states, which will help India to beat down the under-five mortality rate. It should be further complemented by efforts including awareness generation, social mobilization, promoting JSSK, and special incentives to improve neo-natal care. The Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) endorsed by the World Health Assembly calls for an NMR of less than 10 per 1000 live births by 2035 in all countries.
By: ABHISHEK KUMAR GARG ProfileResourcesReport error
Access to prime resources