Child Healthcare

Children are the assets for tomorrow’s productivity

Children of today are tomorrow’s citizen, thus it is extremely important to ensure good health for children. Child health plays a vital role in the development of a country. The first six years of life constitutes the most crucial span in life. At this stage if life, the foundation are laid for mental, physical and social development.. The growth of any country is depending on the availability of healthy human resource. As children represent the future generation, thus makes them healthy is of crucial importance. Healthy children ensure for healthy adult who in turn ensure a sound growth and development of the economy. New-borns particularly infant and under-five children are more vulnerable to malnutrition, mortality and other diseases, which can be easily prevented or treated. India is listed in the countries where malnutrition and child mortality is alarmingly high. According to the data released by the Office of the Registrar General of India, indicate that although the mortality rate especially infant and under-five mortality rate is declining over the years, yet there are some states where these rates are very high. This shows that instead the progress in health care sector in India, young population especially in the age group 0-6 years continuously lost their lives due to inadequate nutrition and proper care. The mortality rates and nutritional status of the children reflects the threats in child health. Despite various measures and programmes to control the malnutrition and mortality among children the condition remains a cause of serious concern that need to be addressed urgently. Although country experiences rapid economic growth and easy access to affordable food and food supplementation programmes for children, yet there are nearly half the under-five children are underweight. Another important concern for us is child mortality. Despite progress in health sector, India has very high child mortality rates. The child mortality rates reflect the threats in child health. Thus Gyan Gullak Foundation always works for the betterment of child healthcare in Rajasthan state.