At
least 473 infants below one year died in Mizoram during April to
December last year while ten
mothers died during pregnancy and delivery over the same period.
According
to Dr Gordon Zohmingthanga, Mission Director of the state National Health
Mission, there were 14,825 pregnant women while 16,156 new-born babies reported
in the state during the period.
"The
Sample Registration System Survey, 2012 revealed that the national Infant
Mortality Rate for a year was 42 in every 1,000 and the rate in Mizoram was 35
in every 1,000 pregnant women," he said. He said that 89 per cent of the
delivery was safe delivery (delivery in hospitals) while it was 98 per cent in
Aizawl district and southernmost Lawngtlai district was the lowest at 62 per
cent.
