newborns
- World
4.9 million children died globally before turning five in 2024
New Delhi: A series of five research papers published in The British Medical Journal estimates that globally 4.9 million children died before turning five in 2024, including 2.3 million neonatal deaths. Mortality…
- India
Institutional deliveries up from 88.6 pc to 90.6 pc in 2023-24: NFHS-6
New Delhi: Institutional deliveries in India have increased from 88.6 per cent in 2019-2021 to 90.6 per cent in 2023-24, moving closer towards universal coverage, according to the National Family Health Survey-6…
- India
Jharkhand: Newborns enrolled in Aadhaar, birth certificates issued on same day
Jamshedpur: The Chakradharpur divisional railway hospital in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district said newborns in the medical facility were enrolled in Aadhaar and their birth certificates were issued simultaneously for the first time,…
- India
Assam’s heroic nurses shield newborns from earthquake, video goes viral
Amid the 5.8 magnitude earthquake that struck parts of the Northeast and West Bengal on Sunday, two nurses from a private hospital in Assam were captured shielding three newborn babies from the…
- India
NHRC notice to govt, DGP over death of newborns in Jhansi hospital fire
New Delhi: The NHRC on Saturday said it has issued a notice to the Uttar Pradesh government and the state’s police chief in connection with a fire at the children’s ward of…
- India
Expired licence, no NOC from fire dept – shocking irregularities at Delhi hospital
New Delhi: The private neonatal hospital in east Delhi where seven newborns died and five were injured in a blaze was operating despite the expiry of its license. It also did not…
