Healthcare for Children in India

In India, the great divide between the rich and poor on the health front is ever widening.

Going by the results of an international survey, India stands at 135 position among 176 countries, indicating that the gap between the health-rich and the health-poor, contributing to the deaths of thousands of children every day

The Report Released by World Vision The Killer Gap: A Global Index of Health Inequality for Children, assessed 176 countries around the world according to the size of the gap between those who have access to good health and those who do not. The study used four indicators – life expectancy, out-of-pocket expenses for using health services, adolescent fertility rate and coverage of health services (health personnel for population)

According to the Report -

• Indians are forced to spend 61.7 % of their savings to access health services
• 86 out of every 1000 women in India give birth between the ages of 15 and 19 
• for every 10,000 people there are less than seven doctors
• More than 4700 children still die before the age of 5 every day