En 2016, el gobierno del Frente Democrático de Izquierda de Kerala anunció el objetivo de reducir la mortalidad infantil a una cifra de un solo dígito. El año pasado, logró reducir la tasa a cinco por cada 1.000 nacimientos, una cifra inferior al promedio nacional de la India e incluso a la de algunos países del Norte global.

In 2016, Kerala’s Left Democratic Front government announced the goal of cutting infant mortality to single digits. Last year, it managed to bring the ratio to five per 1,000 births — lower than India’s national average and even some Global North countries’.

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