Title MEDICAL - Maternal and Neonatal Telanus disease Date-wise Events August 28, 2015:   India is free of it - WHO India has eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT). It has been reduced to less than one case per 1000 live births across the country. WHO has validated adding India to the list of countries that have successfully battled the disease.  MNT have been among the most common lethal consequences of unclean deliveries and umbilical cord care practices. When tetanus develops, mortality rates are extremely high, especially when appropriate medical care is not available. In many developing countries, deliveries take place in unhygienic circumstances, putting mothers and their new-borns at risk for a variety of life-threatening infections.

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