The Department of Health and Family Welfare, Union Territory of Puducherry, has achieved another milestone in reducing the Infant Mortality Rate (the number of infant death per 1000 live birth).
J. Allirani, Deputy Director (Family Welfare and Maternal and Child Health), in a press statement said: “The recent publication of Sample Registration System bulletin released by the Registrar General of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, in September 2017, has declared that the Infant Mortality Rate for the Union Territory of Puducherry has declined from 11 to 10 in December 2016, whereas it was 22 in 2010. The Government of India IMR is 37.”
She added that the achievement was possible mainly due to good infrastructure and healthcare facilities made available in the district hospitals, community health centres and public health centres with comprehensive antenatal care, intra-natal care and postnatal care to pregnant mothers and new born babies and free transport rendered by the National Rural Health Mission, especially in the Rajiv Gandhi Government Women and Children Hospital District Hospital. “Sick newborn care units functioning in all government health facilities have also helped in achieving this goal,” she stated.