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The report showed that the economic downturn caused by COVID-19 resulted in an additional 2,67,208 infant deaths in low-income countries
The highest numbers of estimated excess infant deaths were in South Asia, totalling 1,13,141
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The hospital administration, however, said that the number of child deaths was quite low as compared to the number of children admitted in the hospital in December.
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The number of infant deaths in Maharashtra has risen over the last three years, with 16,539 newborns losing their lives in 2018-19 alone, the state government admitted in the Legislative Assembly on Friday.
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About 8,02,000 infant deaths were reported in India in 2017, the lowest in five years, according to the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNIGME).
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Suffocation and strangulation deaths increased across the board for boys and girls regardless of race, ethnicity or whether they lived in urban or rural communities, the study found.
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The first 28 days of life – the neonatal period – are the most vulnerable time for a child's survival.
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Placing the baby on his or her side or stomach to sleep are uncomfortable sleeping positions.
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One in five pregnant women carries the bacteria, which can cause meningitis and also life-threatening septicaemia – blood poisoning – in them and their baby.
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The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday said 49 infants have died in a Farrukhabad hospital in the past 30 days.
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Days after the tragic Gorakhpur incident, 52 infants deaths were reported from Jamshedpur's Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College (MGM) hospital in Jharkhand.
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How a simple kiss turned fatal for an 18-day-old baby girl – Read the parents' heart-breaking ordeal
She was diagnosed with Meningitis HSV-1.
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The researchers found that infants born between 24 to 27 weeks had a more than three times higher chance than babies born full term of dying before their first birthday of a sudden unexpected infant death, which is comprised of SIDS and other sleep-related infant deaths.
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There has been similar improvement in almost all childhood health indicators, pointing to the fact that many Indian children are doing better than they ever have.
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According to the latest data released by National Family Health Survey (NFHS) for the year 2015-16, the Infant Mortality Rate - the number of children under the age of 1 who die for every 1,000 born – has been reduced to six.
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New-born babies should be put to bed in the same bedroom as their parents but not on the same bed for the first year of their life.
Five newborns admitted to the neonatal unit of JLN Government Hospital in Ajmer have died since last night, prompting authorities to start a probe.
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The findings not only support the safety of influenza vaccination during pregnancy, but also suggest that vaccination protects against stillbirth.
With this, ten infants have died at the hospital in the last 72 hours.
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Two new studies have challenged the three decades of public-health wisdom, suggesting that the international guideline on the optimal rate of cesarean delivery is too low.
The bereaved parents also accused the hospital of misleading on the cause of the death in the death certificate.
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