In spite of reducing child mortality, deaths of infants in India on the first day of birth is still way too high and likely to hamper it from achieving the millennium development goal for curbing infant mortality rate (IMR) In 2012, as many as 1.013 million babies died on the first day of birth in India, accounting for nearly 40 per cent of the total neo-natal deaths that year. Death in the first 28 days of life is considered an indicator of problems during pre-natal period and delivery.

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