A report discovers that country losses one child under five years of age in every 20 seconds and about 5000 children die every day.

NGO World Vision says that in India child mortality rate can be avoidable because 20% of the deaths occur due to infections, which are treatable like diarrhea. About 2.1 million children die every year, out of which 1.9 million deaths can be preventable. Other countries which suffer from child mortality issue are Nigeria, Congo, and Pakistan.

Dr H Hombergh of the UNICEF said that, 90 percent of the child deaths in India can be preventable by taking proper steps at the accurate time; for the mother during delivery and for the newborn in the first weeks of life.

Various infections occur in the child that grounds for death are diarrhea, acute respiratory, neo mortality, pneumonia. Studies revealed that all these infections can be treatable which will cut down the child death rate by 90%.

Childhood vaccines have a key role in cutting unnecessary deaths. Influenza, hepatitis B, rotavirus, and chicken pox vaccines are among those that are at present and accessible but not included in the schedule.

A study published last year warned that more needed to be done to prevent children with cancer dying from potentially preventable infections.

To minimise the child death rate, Government has launched its Navjaat Shishu Programme in 2009 September and World Vision has launched another campaign called Child Health Now.