1. Pneumonia is the greatest threat to children below 5 in India.
16 percent of under-five child deaths are due to Pneumonia and 14 per cent are due to Diarrhoea as per a Millennium Death Study 2010.
The good news is, there has been a steady decline in it over the last three years :
Year : Under five mortality rate per thousand live births
2010 : 59
2011 : 55
2012 : 52
2. Yellapragada Sudharshan Rao has been appointed as Chairman of Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR). He succeeds Basudev Chatterjee for a 3-year term.
3. There are only one hospital bed per 1946 people in the country. On positive note we are witnessing a decline in the infant mortality rate that has come down to 42 per one lakh live births from 47 last year. On the other hand the widening doctor-to-population ratio is a cause for worry for a country that wish to tap into the potential of its young demography.
4. Centre proposes to set up three new low-cost airports in Bihar at Muzaffarpur, Raxaul and Gaya. While Gaya is an operational custom airport, Raxaul will be a non-operational airport.
5. The health worker density in rural areas is 11.74 per 10,000 populations while in urban areas, the density is 40.46 per 10,000 populations; as per the NSSO 2004-05 report.
There are 1, 60,862 hospital beds in rural areas out of the total 7, 84,940 hospital beds available in the Country: National Health Profile 2011.
6. There are only 136.42 police personnel per one lakh population in India. Whereas the sanctioned police-population ratio is slightly better at 181.47 as per the Bureau of Police Research & Development (BPR&D) as on 1.1.2013. everal countries such as Canada (191.4), Italy (549.9), Japan (199.8), New Zealand (187.0), Spain (313.0), USA (223.6), have higher police-population ratio than India.
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