9% child development projects in city's slums

  • 20/04/1998

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)

As little as nine per cent of the total projects under the Integrated Child Development Services are being undertaken in the slums of the national capital while the infant mortality rate is three times higher in these areas than the city average, says a new study. Despite the existence of hospital facilities most poor women still deliver their babies at home in the slums with the help of untrained attendants, says the study entitled Children at risk in urban areas in India: A review, undertaken by Save the Children,UK (SCF), an international NGO.