1.2mn kids died of preventable diseases in India
According to a UNICEF report, around 1.2 million children under the age of five died of preventable diseases in India in 2015. The causes included premature and neonatal birth complications (39%), pneumonia (14.9%), and diarrhoea (9.8%). However, India’s under-five mortality rate – deaths per 1,000 live births – has improved to 48 from 126 deaths in 1990, the report added.