The eighth season of the Banega Swasth India initiative stresses on the need to take care of, and consider everyone's health in India especially vulnerable communities
Oct 03, 2021
11:02 (IST)
Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist, World Health Organisation joins the special discussion on ‘75 Years of Health, Hygiene and Nutrition in India’
Elimination of polio and a few other vaccine preventable diseases is one of the biggest achievements of the India, thanks to the wonderful expansion of immunization coverage. I still remember when I was a young doctor, I used to see many cases of newborn babies with this tetanus, a horrible disease. Maternal and neo-natal tetanus was eliminated thanks to immunization. So was small pox and polio. So, I would really count that as one of the top achievements. The second one would be in the area of maternal and child health. During the MDG era between 2000 and 2015 in particular, but also if you look back 75 minutes, we've come a long way in reducing maternal mortality as well as child mortality.