THE MINISTER OF HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE (SHRI GHULAM NABI AZAD)
(a) Yes.
(b) The Government of India has launched National Rural Health Mission
(NRHM) under which the Reproductive and Child Health Programme
(RCH) II comprehensively integrates interventions that improve child
health and addresses factors contributing to morbidity and mortality.
(c) As per the Sample Registration System (SRS) 2008, published by Registrar General of
India (RGI) the under five child mortality rate is 69 per 1000 live birth. This indicates
that about 6.9% of children born alive die before attaining the age of 5 years.
d) The key components of child health programme which help reduce child morbidity and
mortality are as follows:
# Establishment of Special Newborn Care Units, Newborn Stabilization
Units and Newborn Care Corners at health facilities.
# Integrated management of neonatal and childhood Illnesses (IMNCI) and
Pre- Service Integrated management of neonatal and childhood Illnesses
(IMNCI)
# Facility Based Integrated management of neonatal and childhood
Illnesses (IMNCI).
# Early detection and appropriate management of Diarrhoeal disease
# Early detection and appropriate management of Acute Respiratory
Infections and other infections
# Navjaat Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (NSSK), a programme for Basic
newborn care and resuscitation
# Provition of health Infant and young child feeding processes including
breast feeding
# Immunization
# Vitamin A supplementation and Iron and Folic Acid supplementation.
# Establishment of Nutritional Rehabilitation Centres