The World Health Organization (WHO) observes the day with concern that malnutrition is a major cause of death and debility in children in Bangladesh. Micro-nutrient deficiency is quite common; nearly 75 per cent of children's life is spent in illness mostly due to malnutrition related debility and infections.However, according to WHO, Bangladesh has achieved a significant decline in infant and child mortality over the past decade. Control and prevention of diseases, such as measles, poliomyelitis, and diphtheria along with widespread use of ORS for diarrhoeal diseases have greatly reduced childhood mortality and morbidity.Bangladesh is on the verge of polio eradication, and has already achieved the elimination goal for leprosy at the national level. People are living longer; the average life expectancy at birth in Bangladesh had increased to over 65.1 years. Population continues, however, to grow at about 1.5 per cent and total fertility rate has remained around 2.51 for the last several years. The maternal death ratio is still high at over 300 per 100,000 live births.
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