The Uttar Pradesh government is providing digital training to staff nurses, ANMs, and health visitors to ensure every child receives regular immunisation.
Bringing major relief to female employees, the Himachal Pradesh government has introduced a 60-day special maternity leave for women who experience a stillbirth or the loss of a child soon after birth.
Seven people, including two women and a three-year-old child, were dead in a major fire at a private hospital in Dindigul town, 425 km south of Chennai.
Union Minister for Women and Child Development Annpurna Devi is set to launch a national campaign "Ab Koi Bahana Nahi” on Monday with a call for actionable steps from the public, the government, and key stakeholders to eliminate gender-based violence.
A child suffering from breathing trouble, died in an ambulance last night while it was stuck in a roadblock for long hours. The roadblock was in place, and the ambulance got stuck at Ward 10 in Jangipur in Murshidabad.
As per the country-wide statistics, 1,795 child marriages were reported from 2018 to 2020 of which Odisha accounted for 68 cases only.
About 12.8 million children have tested positive for Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemic in the country more than two years ago, reports Xinhua news agency.
According to police, after crossing the Cable Bridge, the SUV coming from Madhapur side hit the footpath vendors. Two infants who were in their mothers' laps fell down. Later, one of them was declared dead at a nearby hospital.
“Without any delay we performed a laryngoscopy procedure and extracted the plastic cover from the baby’s respiratory tract within a few minutes. He is stable and kept in the intensive care unit for round-the-clock observations. He was gasping with abnormally low oxygen saturation level, 50, when he was brought to our institute today,”
The research also identifies the top enablers – that is, the factors that motivate families – for seeking care. An understanding of these barriers and enablers can be used to improve parents’ timely uptake of services for their children.
