Infant Death By Anganwadi

A girl child born on Dhanteras just three months old died a few days ago. She was the daughter of my staff's brother. My staff informed me that she must have died from the cold. But when I told him this winter it's hardly cold he told me two days before her death some Anganwadi staff of the government had inoculated her. When I enquired a doctor told me inoculations are avoided if baby has fever or sick otherwise it can react. Causes for infant deaths can be many but in India infant deaths are high is a matter of shame. In 2001 Gujarat had a very high infant deaths 60 per thousand live births. But in 2020 it's reduced to 23 deaths per thousand live births. Bihar has 27 deaths per thousand. While Madhya Pradesh where every other yojana is called Laadlee something has 47 deaths per thousand. Of course Gujarat figures could be higher because everything including GDP is rigged these days. I remember as a Reporter I was asked to report on Millennial Baby in the year 2000. So from 11 pm I waited inside the Patna Medical College Hospital. From midnight onwards several babies were born but they all died. So the first millennial live baby we got was in the morning 6 am, it just showed how far behind we are in everything, sadly health care and nutrition are still neglected.