This article talked about the deaths of children declining over a two-decade
period. India accounts for a considerable amount for the children under the age
five. The estimation according to this article, across the world was 6.9
million last year; in 1990, the estimation was 12 million. This decline is accredited
to effective interventions to fight diseases like measles, malaria, and polio.
This article stated that 1.7 million under the age of five, in India alone
accounts for nearly a quarter of those deaths worldwide (UNICEF). The decline
of deaths over the years in India has been slow compared to the other countries
according to this article. Mr. Mohan, in this article, stated, “India has had
the highest number of under five deaths for years partly because of the sheer
number of births in the country.” Mr. Mohan, goes on to say, “the deaths are caused
by infections, low birth weights, diarrhea, and pneumonia. The decline in
deaths of children under five is due to community based intervention, newborn
care and treatment of diarrhea and pneumonia” (http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/india-has-worlds-worst-child-mortality-rate/ ).
This article mentioned that in 2011, eighty-two percent of under-five
deaths occurred in these two regions, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia (http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/india-has-worlds-worst-child-mortality-rate/
).
The above article did not mention about how a large amount of India’s
children is living in poverty and many of them are dying from starvation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul4RF9sCPXI).
The above article mentioned about how interventions are put in place to slow
down the children deaths in India. The above article never mentioned about
putting an intervention in place to stop their children from starving. I went a
little further in my research on India nuclear is being produced (http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf53.html
). We all know producing nuclear cost. India’s priorities are obvious and heartbreaking.
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