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Child, Maternal Deaths In India Alarming And Scary: Prime Minister Narendra Modi

by Bidita Debnath on Aug 31 2015 12:03 PM

 Child, Maternal Deaths In India Alarming And Scary: Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that child and maternal deaths in the country are alarming and scary.
Every year some 50,000 women and 13 lakh infants die during childbirth, Modi said in his Mann Ki Baat radio address.

The 'Call to Action Summit 2015', a global meet to end preventable child and maternal deaths, was hosted for the first time in India, Modi said. He said there was a need to end these deaths.

Source-IANS


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