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TIMES OF INDIA (India)
If one were to go by the latest National Family Health Survey, Karnataka is not in the pink of health.
Major health indicators -- Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) -- show the state in poor light. The survey report presented by Amit Mohan Prasad, joint secretary of Union ministry of health and family welfare, to health minister B Sreeramulu on Wednesday indicated the MMR in Karnataka is 213 for every one-lakh live births. In neighbouring Kerala and Tamil Nadu, where institutional deliveries touch 95%, MMR is less than 200. IMR records 45 for every 1,000 live births in the state, while Kerala and Tamil Nadu records 36 and 41 respectively...
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TIMES OF INDIA (India)
BANGALORE: If one were to go by the latest National Family Health Survey, Karnataka is not in the pink of health.
Major health indicators -- Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) -- show the state in poor light. The survey report presented by Amit Mohan Prasad, joint secretary of Union ministry of health and family welfare, to health minister B Sreeramulu on Wednesday indicated the MMR in Karnataka is 213 for every one-lakh live births. In neighbouring Kerala and Tamil Nadu, where institutional deliveries touch 95%, MMR is less than 200. IMR records 45 for every 1,000 live births in the state, while Kerala and Tamil Nadu records 36 and 41 respectively...
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