World Health Day 2025: Today World Health Day is being celebrated all over the world. If you talk about the theme of World Health Day this year, 'Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures' In simple language, if you understand this in a simple language, it is to build an optimistic future from a healthy start. Every year the theme of Health Day changes, this time the theme is dependent on the health of pregnant women and the care of newborns.

However, the situation in the national capital Delhi is presenting the picture, opposite to this theme. Despite government efforts, an average of 20 newborns in Delhi are dying in the first year of birth every day. This figure is not only worrisome, but also tells the story of our failure on the maternal and child health front.

According to experts, a total of 7439 newborns died in Delhi in the year 2023. 60 percent of these children died before the age of four months. Let me tell you, infant mortality has increased to 23.61 percent, which is many times more than developed countries like America. In America, this rate is just 5 to 6 per thousand births.

Know what are the main causes of infant mortality rate

Doctors and experts believe that the biggest reason is the lack of adequate nutrition and care of the mother and child during pregnancy. In addition, the lack of treatment facilities in government hospitals in the national capital Delhi, especially the NICU and PICU unit required for newborns, is a major problem. Emergency cesarean surgery facility is also not available in many hospitals.

Major causes of infants death:

Not being able to develop properly in the womb and malnutrition – 20.45%
Pneumonia – 18.51%
Septismia – 14.95%
Shortage of breath and lack of oxygen – 9.49%
Shock and other complex diseases – 6.27%

According to the information, the institutional delivery rate in Delhi has reached 95.58%, which has led to a decline in maternal mortality, but still 142 pregnant women lost their lives in 2023. The schemes being run by the government like Janani Suraksha Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana and Nutrition Campaign are not reaching all women.

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The need is that it is necessary to not only make plans, but to ensure access to them at the ground level. On the occasion of World Health Day, the question is the biggest question whether we are able to give our children a healthy start and hopeful future.