Infants Deaths in Tribal Districts of Odisha

Infants Deaths in   Tribal
Districts of Odisha
(Exposed under RTI)
                      
No substantial Improvement in reduction of infant deaths in tribal
districts of Odisha 
Much claim of BJD Govt. about  drastic 
reduction of  infant  death 
through  implementation of series
of  programme  is false 
and superfluous.
·        
Over-all Infant 
death  has  remained 
stagnant in  these  tribal districts  despite 
implementation of plethora  of
programme .
·        
It 
shows  malnutrition and food  insecurity 
is still high  and looms large in
these  districts.
·        
Huge pumping 
of  fund  by Govt. has 
not yielded expected  results.
·        
More 
intervention is required  to
reduce infant  mortality  in the state.
Dear friends
Since  last 
few years, the  State  Govt. has 
given  top  priority 
for  reduction of  infant 
in Odisha  by  implementing 
series of programme  with  investment 
of huge  money  for 
it.  To  understand progress of  Govt. effort 
in the  field  of 
checking infant mortality 
and  result  of huge investment, RTI  Application was  filed 
to CDMOs  of  10 tribal 
districts  in which  child mortality  rate 
is very  high.  The PIOs of office of CDMOs  of 5 districts have  provided information in January, 2019.
Due  to 
my  personal engagement  in 
other works, I could  not  put 
this  information in public  domain. 
The  CDMOs  of 
Bolangir, Malkangiri, Kondhamal, Rayagada, Kalahandi  have 
not  provided  information. 
Appeal  procedure  has been 
followed to get  the  information which  will be shared  later 
on. On 27.12.18.,  The  information sought  for 
from office of Chief  District Medical
Officers  is as follows.
i. Provide    information
about  no. of  infants died ( upto age of five years) in the
district ( year-wise)
ii. Provide name  of the programme implemented  to infant mortality  in the district.
iii. Provide total fund utilized
to  check 
infant death in the district ( year-wise).
iv. Provide total fund spent for Nutrition
Rehabilitation centre ( NRC) ( year-wise)
The  information provided  by the 
CDMOs  of the  5 
districts  is as follows.
1.       Infant deaths in different
districts (from 2014-15 to 2018-19)
Year
Total No. of infant and Child  deaths 
upto age  of 05  years
Koraput
Nuapara
Rourkela Govt. Hospital
Sundaragarh
SDH, Banai
Nabarangpur
Mayurbhanj
Kalahandi
2014-15
1246
720
110
759
10
453
1333
2015-16
891
698
128
651
4
390
1224
2016-17
994
709
127
445
9
1238
1261
1146
2017-18
888
575
124
561
6
1161
1198
1090
2018-19 ( till Dec.18)
1067
310
81
433
1
810
1040
898
2. Name  of  the programmes  implemented 
to reduce  infant  death 
in Odisha
a. Special New Born Care 
Unit ( SNCU)
b. New  Born
Stabilisation Unit ( NBSU)
c. Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre ( NRC)
d. Village Health 
Nutrition Day ( VHND)- A programme 
for  regular health  check up 
of new born babies.
e. Home based New 
Born Care ( HBNC).
f. IDCM
g.JSSK ( Janani Sishu Surakhya Karyakrama)
h. Sampurna
i. Lanour  Room
standardization
j. NDD
K. Immunisation
l. New Born Care 
Corner ( NBCC)
3. Expenditure  for  Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre ( NRC) in
different  districts (  from 2014-15 to 2018-19)
Year
Expenditure  for
NRC
Koraput
Nuapara
Rourkela Govt. Hospital
Mayurbhanj
Nabarangpur
 Kalahandi
2014-15
12,31,436.00
7,65,083.00
 Total amount
4,63,899.00
10,60,000.00
N.A.
Not  provided by the PIO
2015-16
13,61,797.00
3,36,710.00
10,01,000.00
N.A.
2016-17
13,80,454.00
2,81,940.00
19,02,000.00
14,71,898.00
2017-18
12,15,822.00
4,31,598.00
19,01,000.00
15,93,795.00
2018-19
13,16,243.00
 9,30,123.00
12,33,000.00
11,24,411.00
4.  Details of  fund 
utilized  under  various programme  for 
checking  infant  death  
is as follows.
Year
Name 
od districts  and total fund
utilized (  in lakhs)
Koraput
Nuapara
Sundargarh
Mayurbhanj
Nabarangpur
Kalahandi
2014-15
41.21
13.84
0
35.8
Not 
provided  by PIO
2015-16
26.37
9.20
10,800.00
35.29
2016-17
24.54
11.34
41,000.00
19.02
211.05
2017-18
25.62
18.61
90,600.00
19.01
220.92
2018-19
22.75
19.49
87,400.00
12.33
448.29
Pradip  Pradhan
M-9937843482
Date- 28.5.19