Only 32% of Indians live in cities and enjoy state-of-the-art diagnostic and therapeutic facilities offered in multi-speciality hospitals ...
68% of Indians who live in rural areas have limited access to health care facilities and so have to depend on locally available health care providers who may not be suitably trained.
Due to the measures taken at the community level the maternal and infant mortality rate are coming down steadily. However, we still have 7,83,000 deaths in children under 5 years of age due to preventable causes such as pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, and perinatal problems. (WHO: Child Mortality in its publication dated 28th January 2022).
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Many people who fall ill in the villages, may not make it to the Hospitals where they can get the needed care.
