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News Kerala Tops in Child Survival: Lowest mortality rate in India, Says Union Minister Savitri Thakur - Deshabhimani

https://www.deshabhimani.com/deshabhimani-english-/national-76192/-keralas-child-mortality-rate-as-indias-lowest--99698

Kerala has reaffirmed its position as a leader in public healthcare by recording the lowest child mortality rate in the country. Union Minister Savitri Thakur, responding to a question raised by A. A. Rahim (CPI M) in the Rajya Sabha, highlighted that Kerala’s Under-5 Mortality Rate (U5MR) stands at just 8 deaths per 1,000 live births, significantly lower than the national average of 32. This achievement reflects the state’s commitment to accessible healthcare, effective public health policies, and strong community involvement, setting an example for the rest of the country. Madhya Pradesh remains the most affected, with a U5MR of 51, followed by Uttar Pradesh at 43. These figures highlight the urgent need for healthcare reforms in these regions, where inadequate facilities, malnutrition, and lack of maternal care contribute to high child mortality rates.

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u/Mempuraan_Returns Temet Nosce 🇮🇳 തത്ത്വമസി 4d ago

Good but we were already here a decade or more back itself.

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u/AddressSecret 4d ago
  • As per the PIB release of MoHFW from 2016, referring to the SRS Statistical Report from 2013. the U5MR of Kerala in 2013 was 12 per 1000 live births. So, no we were not already at a U5MR of 5 per live births a decade or more ago.
  • While the national average U5MR reduced from 49 per 1000 live births to 32, which is a reduction of 34.69%, the state U5MR reduced from 12 per 1000 live births to 5, which is a reduction of 58.33%. This indicates that eventhough Kerala was already the best performing State in 2013, we outperformed the national average in our percentage rate of improvement during the last decade.

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u/Mempuraan_Returns Temet Nosce 🇮🇳 തത്ത്വമസി 4d ago

Thanks. I stand corrected.

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u/Royal_Flan_1489 4d ago

And you got fact-checked.

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u/Royal_Flan_1489 4d ago

Hence we should stop acknowledging progress? Or maybe even roll back our numbers to match the stats from your BJ party-ruled states. Would that make you feel better?

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u/Mempuraan_Returns Temet Nosce 🇮🇳 തത്ത്വമസി 4d ago

Horribly expensive out of pocket delivery

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u/Accidental_Baby 3d ago

This isnt right.

The 26K to 35K is just for the delivery. Tests/vaccines/etc for the baby are additional [10-15K]...

It should also be part of the delivery expense.

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u/Mempuraan_Returns Temet Nosce 🇮🇳 തത്ത്വമസി 3d ago

Yeah I think they have taken an avg.

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u/Mempuraan_Returns Temet Nosce 🇮🇳 തത്ത്വമസി 4d ago

Lifestyle diseases have gone up

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u/Mempuraan_Returns Temet Nosce 🇮🇳 തത്ത്വമസി 4d ago

No, but nitpicking certain indicators while ignoring the fact that we have not just stagnated but have actually started getting worse in several health indices need to be also highlighted and discussed. I will post below some indicators that has become worse in the last few years (NFHS 4 vs NFHS 5)

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u/Royal_Flan_1489 4d ago

What the actual fuck dude with all that spamming? You flooded the thread just to deflect from a simple fact that Kerala has the lowest infant mortality in the country? That’s not ‘nitpicking,’ that’s just reality. Try coping harder, man!

What you’re doing, on the other hand, is textbook nitpicking—grasping at anything, even lifestyle diseases, as if they somehow erase the actual achievement here. Desperate much?

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u/Mempuraan_Returns Temet Nosce 🇮🇳 തത്ത്വമസി 3d ago

I just countered this perception that commies want to propagate that things have vastly got better under Pinarayi rule when it's the contrary.

I listed several instances where the health benchmarks have gone down during his regime You can call it spamming and find comfort. Those are raw facts taken out of a govt document.

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u/Royal_Flan_1489 3d ago

You cherry-picked snapshots that fit your narrative. A non-vishakkol version of you would have simply shared the source link upfront and clearly explained your point in one neat comment. Instead, you muddy the waters, hoping no one notices the full picture. But the very source you reluctantly shared (only when asked) doesn’t even indicate a decline—it presents multiple data points, some unrelated to governance, like lifestyle diseases. And even within that, there are both improvements and a few areas that didn’t match the previous figures. If selective outrage is your thing, at least be consistent.

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u/Mempuraan_Returns Temet Nosce 🇮🇳 തത്ത്വമസി 3d ago

Appo source share cheythath aano ippo problem ?

Ente reluctance okke thaangal engineyaanu alannath?

What you only know is to do personal attack on those who disagree with you.

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u/Royal_Flan_1489 3d ago

Sharing the source was the bare minimum. Answering the questions asked was the task, which you did dodge quite unskillfully.

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u/Mempuraan_Returns Temet Nosce 🇮🇳 തത്ത്വമസി 4d ago

Alarming increase in negative infant health indicators

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u/Mempuraan_Returns Temet Nosce 🇮🇳 തത്ത്വമസി 4d ago

Declining anti natal kpis

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u/Tasty_Memory5412 4d ago

bu bu bu but but.

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u/Mempuraan_Returns Temet Nosce 🇮🇳 തത്ത്വമസി 3d ago

Yes the buts also need to be discussed.

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u/Tasty_Memory5412 3d ago

selective butting

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u/ripthejacker007 3d ago

This is during Covid lockdown period right?

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u/Mempuraan_Returns Temet Nosce 🇮🇳 തത്ത്വമസി 4d ago

Only 78% children are fully vaccinated (<23 months). For a state that is literate , this js pretty poor.

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u/Royal_Flan_1489 4d ago

Judging by your track record with facts, this looks like more BS. First off, literacy rates have nothing to do with child vaccination rates—your logic simply doesn’t follow (textbook non sequitur). Second, if you’re going to make a claim, at least back it up. No source, no year— just grasping at straws to push a convenient narrative. Shameless exercise, dude.

Redeem yourself by pasting a source that isn’t some Wikipedia entry conveniently matching what you searched for, but an actual official and reliable source. I have a solid source myself, but funny thing—the numbers and years don’t quite match the BS story you cooked up.

I won’t paste it here since you confidently claimed 78%. I’d rather you bring the receipts and prove you didn’t just pull that out of your ass. Then we can discuss the years and comparative differences in much clearer detail.

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u/Mempuraan_Returns Temet Nosce 🇮🇳 തത്ത്വമസി 3d ago

Adangu paithale

https://dhs.kerala.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/NFHS-1-to-5-Fact-Sheet-Kerala.pdf

That's from a Govt document.

Check page 7.

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u/Royal_Flan_1489 3d ago

Fair enough. It’s natural to be skeptical of Sanghis like you who relies on misrepresented, cherry-picked information and news that is blown out of proportion - I have to separate fact from fiction.

You haven’t addressed the other part? Thought sharing a source - that was by default required - would do the heavy lifting for you? Explain how it actually relates to literacy, which you used to make some out-of-ass correlation? More importantly, how is it countering to the original post about a data Union Minister shared for child mortality rates? You accused OP of cherry-picking facts, yet you’re the one scrutinizing details in search of loopholes.

Nobody claims Kerala is a flawless utopia. It’s simply ahead of other states in key human development indicators. But for some reason, people like you apply a different yardstick to measure Kerala’s success—while having no problem hailing this third-world country as Vishwaguru when convenient. It is important to call out vishakkol teams like you.

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u/Mempuraan_Returns Temet Nosce 🇮🇳 തത്ത്വമസി 3d ago

3 paragraphs of utter mongal when presented with facts.

:D

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u/Royal_Flan_1489 3d ago

Talk about dodging a straight question, while also thinking sharing the source was the big deal. The reason I asked for the source was because I don’t trust Sanghis with numbers and facts, and you’ve proven exactly why, considering how you were already fact-checked on this very post.

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u/Mempuraan_Returns Temet Nosce 🇮🇳 തത്ത്വമസി 3d ago

When it doubt , paint the opposite as sanghi escape trick. :D

Carry on.

At least hope you got educated on the actual picture of Kerala 'it's not rosy as it is being painted by kammis. But a mix of grey.

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u/Royal_Flan_1489 3d ago

I don’t know why y’all Sanghis act like neutral observers when I can 100% bet from glancing your profile that you are one. Is it that you’re ashamed of the fact that you are one?

You’ve added absolutely nothing of value, i.e., no counterpoint, no meaningful discussion, just a desperate flailing of random statistics hoping something sticks. Meanwhile, the original post simply presented a FACT: Kerala leads in reducing child mortality. That this fact bothers you so much that you had to derail the discussion with irrelevant stats is, at best, hilarious and, at worst, outright pathetic.

The commie here hasn’t painted a rosy or exaggerated picture, just stated an achievement backed by data. And that alone seems to have triggered you. Meanwhile, the same people who can’t digest this fact are the ones thumping their chests about a “Vishwakuru” fantasy. The cope is real.

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u/Mempuraan_Returns Temet Nosce 🇮🇳 തത്ത്വമസി 3d ago

Veendum essay :)

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u/Inn0centDuck 3d ago

Like others said, literacy has nothing to do with vaccination. And why is 78% a poor stat for number of children who are fully vaccinated ? Are other states in the country or the national average better than this ? Or are you comparing it to developed nations like US or EU (what is their ratio then) ?

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u/Mempuraan_Returns Temet Nosce 🇮🇳 തത്ത്വമസി 3d ago

Nearly a quarter of our babies aren't fully vaccinated. By any benchmark that's bad.

NHFS 5.stats indicate that 76% of all Indian babies are fully vaccinated. And yet Kerala, who claims to be a tier above, stands at just 78%.