Kerala's budgetary practices are facing intense analysis. A recent white paper discloses staggering liabilities amounting to ₹5.07 lakh cro...

India's infant mortality rate has significantly dropped to 24 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024. This progress is largely due to a surge...

Mothers in the Central African Republic face dire circumstances. Moreover, aid cuts have closed vital health services, forcing women to giv...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath reviewed health and medical education. He stressed improving treatment quality and expanding s...

India is a leader in delivering healthcare interventions with fairness. Union Health Minister JP Nadda highlighted this at the World Health...

A woman delivered her baby in a government hospital park in Faridabad after the main gate was found locked and no staff responded to pleas ...

Mississippi has declared a public health emergency due to a soaring infant mortality rate, the worst in the nation at 9.7 deaths per 1,000 ...

Mississippi has declared a public health emergency due to a soaring infant mortality rate, nearly double the national average, highlighting...

Assam shows great improvement in reducing Maternal Mortality Ratio, Infant Mortality Rate and Under 5 Mortality Rate. Chief Minister Himant...

The Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), which is widely accepted as a crude indicator of the overall health scenario of a country or a region, is ...

India ranked below Sri Lanka (127), Bangladesh (54), Nepal (50) and Bhutan (60) but was above Pakistan, which was ranked among the lowest i...

Most such deaths occur in the absence of well-equipped delivery rooms and doctors or when mother and child are weak. Only 23 states have be...

In India, IMR has declined from 57 per 1,000 live births in 2006 to 42 per 1,000 live births in 2012.

Despite having the best healthcare facilities, infant mortality rate was the highest last year in Delhi compared to previous five years, go...

India is the most dangerous place in the world to be a baby girl. Data shows that an Indian girl child aged 1-5 years is 75% more likely to...

Between 2009 and 2010, the infant mortality rate has increased 18.5%, from 18.96 per thousand to 22.47 per thousand.

India is behind even its poorer neighbour Bangladesh in fighting infant mortality and child malnutrition during the last decade, a senior A...