'Less Spoken Fact'

India’s status as Global super power is increasing. We come across several statistics which indicates growth here but are these numbers justified? We accept figure that are shown to us again and again as facts. What about the figure which nobody tells? Some are related to State of children deprived of basic needs.

Child mortality rates have doubled in India's slums. There are many children with empty stomachs while some enjoy their over-priced dishes. Many are deprived of basic amenities and nutrition essential for life but we praise only success stories of ineffective Govt. plans. Plans which were implemented ages ago yet couldn't eliminate diseases, from which many parts of globe were immune decades ago. World Bank predicts that India's economy will be the fastest-growing by next year and the country is an influential force within the G20, World Health Organisation figures show it ranks 171st out of 175 countries for public health spending.

Narrow paths, narrower houses have no space for people, we can imagine the state of sanitation there. People residing in slums are more vulnerable to diseases. Due to Poor Sanitation and contamination of drinking water diseases like Diarrhoea, Juan Dice, Parasitic infestation and faecal oral epidemics are very common in such areas. Here, 15 hundred thousand children die each day because of diarrhoea and every 15 seconds a child dies because of water borne diseases, more than 400,000 in their first 24 hours.  According to Gethin Chamberlain, nearly 2 million Indian children die under five each day and that is the highest number all over the world.  Even in the capital, Delhi, where an estimated 20% of people live in slums, the infant mortality rate is reported to have doubled in a year, though city authorities dispute this.

We know there are many government run Health camps, centres and hospitals and we also know how well organised they are. Just constructing a structure to provide facilities don’t help, ‘Efficient Management’ is also important. Proper access to medical facilities is also a right of every individual, may be not written anywhere, that cannot be denied.

We are no one to preach the concerned people how to combat these problems. All we want is to draw attention on these issues, which might be petty for some, but are considerable for building a strong and developed Nation.

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