India – along with Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Pakistan – account for more than half the 5.9 million children who died last year before attaining the age of five years.
Around 39% were babies who died due to complications during birth. Most of the rest, the report said, died from diseases like malaria and diarrhoea, which are easy to control, but have become prime killers through lack of proper sanitation and access to healthcare.
Worldwide, the other causes of children’s deaths included pneumonia, meningitis, tetanus, measles, sepsis and AIDS.
The report suggested that the overwhelming majority of child deaths can be prevented through well-known, low-cost and easily deliverable interventions and facilities like sanitation, holistic nutrition and women’s reproductive health management.
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