RIGHT TO HEALTH

• The right to health can be regarded as part of human rights and applicable to all, children constitute the
most neglected segment having been denied adequate health care. Moreover, children are totally
dependent upon adults for all of their needs. In the absence or a lack of adequate parental care, the State
must be responsible to meet their health needs by making child-centric policies and sufficient allocation of
funds.

CHILD HEALTH GOALS • The Child Health programme under the Reproductive,
Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent
Child Health Curre NHP SDG 2030
Indicator (RMNCH+A) Strategy of the National Health Mission
nt 2017
Status (NHM), comprehensively integrates interventions that
improve child health and nutrition status and
Neonatal 23 16 by <12
Mortality Rate 2025 addresses factors contributing to neonatal, infant,
(NMR) under-five mortality and malnutrition.
• Under National Health Mission (NHM) the provision
Infant 33 28 by _ of health care to children particularly in rural areas is
Mortality Rate 2019
(IMR) given priority attention .The impact of these
concerted efforts was clearly visible on the under 5
Under 5 37 23 by ≤25 mortality rate which came down from 111 per 1000
Mortality Rate 2025 live births in 1990 to 37 in 2017. We now need to be
(U5MR)
on track to reach the Sustainable Development Goals
SOURCE: Sample registration system (2017) (SDG) target of 25 by 2030.
 INDIA NEW BORN ACTION PLAN(INAP)- launched in 2014 through which India envisions action plan
that eliminates preventable deaths of new-borns and stillbirths where babies and children survive, thrive and
reach their full potential . It targets to achieve single digit neonatal mortality rate(NMR) and still birth
rate(SBR) by 2030.INAP target for NMR and SBR for year 2017(NMR-24, SBR-19) and 2020(NMR-21,SBR-
17) have been successfully achieved.
 Malnutrition is considered to be the underlying cause of 45% of child deaths.

Some Nutrition related interventions are :

 The Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS),
launched in 1975, has addressed the nutrition and
education needs of pre-school children and has
evolved over time to cover the 0–6 y age range.
 The Midday meal scheme (under the Ministry of
Education) is a centrally sponsored scheme which
was launched in 1995.In 2021, it was renamed as
'Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman' scheme (PM
Poshan Scheme) and it also covers students of
balvatikas (children in the 3–5-year age group) from
pre-primary classes. Address hunger and
malnutrition, increase enrolment and attendance in
school, improve socialisation among castes, provide
employment at grassroot level especially to women.