| Background Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) calls for reducing by two-thirds
the mortality rate of children under the age of 5 years, between 1990 and 2015.
Almost 90% of all child deaths are attributable to just five conditions: Neonatal
Causes, Pneumonia, Diarrhoea, Malaria and Measles. According to SRS 2013, MP has
shown highest fall in Neonatal Mortality in the country by 3 points while National
fall is by 1 point. Similarly MP has shown highest decline in U-5 mortality this
year by 4 points while national decline is 3 points. MP no longer has the dubious
distinctions of having highest NMR and U-5 mortality in the country.
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