IGNOU, Unicef sensitise scribes on infant deaths

New Delhi: 4th August 2011

IGNOU along with Unicef sensitised media personnel on the high infant mortality and low immunisation levels in Madhya Pradesh. A 20-member team comprising national, state and district level media visited Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh and observed the low rate of routine immunisation and high infant mortality in the state, a varsity official said. The journalists visited the state-of-the-art special care newborn units, set-up by the National Rural Health Mision (NRHM) and Unicef, as well as the cold chain vaccine storage units in the district.

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