Bhutan
Child poverty in Bhutan
This Monograph “Insights from Multidimensional Child Poverty Index (C-MPI) and Qualitative interviews with Poor Children” is a combination of multidimensional poverty index constructed from child related
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Bhutan
Bhutan poverty assessment 2014
While Bhutan has made remarkable gains in reducing extreme poverty, sections of its population remain vulnerable to falling back into poverty, says the Bhutan Poverty Assessment Report. The Bhutan Poverty
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Bhutan
Bhutan is ‘now’ polio-free
The country will receive the polio-free certification from the World Health Organisation today Health: It has been almost three decades since Bhutan recorded the last clinically compatible polio case.
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Bhutan
Lajab CS ARI outbreak under control
An outbreak of acute respiratory infection (ARI) in Lajab gewog’s community school, Dagana that was reported in the first week of June has now been brought under control, district health officials said.
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Bhutan
Food and Nutrition Security Policy of Bhutan, 2012
Gross National Happiness may remain a dream for the people and Bhutan’s
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India
Need to boost immunisation programme
“Nearly 9.7 million children in the South-East Asian region still do not get the most basic of vaccines like the third dose of DTP-containing vaccine. Immunisation is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions. Growing opportunities through new funding as well as research and development initiatives should not go in vain due to the lack of perceived benefit. We need to increase public awareness and ensure that the public understands how immunisation saves lives,” WHO regional director for South-East Asia Dr. Samlee Plianbangchang has said.
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Bhutan
Child labour in Bhutan: the challenges of implementing child rights in Bhutan
This dissertation attempts to contextualize the practice of child labour in Bhutan by examining various socio-economic and cultural aspects. By reviewing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of
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Bhutan
5-in-1 infant protection
The health ministry has introduced an additional vaccine to protect infants against pneumonia, one of the leading causes of death in children under 15 years in Bhutan, and meningitis.
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Bhutan
Mother-child mortality rates in steady decline
Common cold, skin infections, diarrhoea and skin disorders were the main cause of health problems for children under five years old in Bhutan, according to the annual health bulletin 2008. Last year 54,781 cases of common cold, 22,472 cases of diarrhoea, and 23,817 cases of skin infections were recorded across the country. Of the 13,851 children born last year, 61 were stillbirths and foetal death, followed by 98 neonatal deaths. Ten children were born with STD.
