Announcing decrease of child mortality rate by 60 percent

World Health Organization's Special Program

Announcing decrease of child mortality rate by 60 percent

By 2030, it will be effective if 10 million children

* 3 lac of children are cancerually affected every year

* Most of the children of middle and lower age children

Cancer is one of the reasons for child deaths worldwide. Doctors have no clear idea about why children are infected with cancer. However, at least 300,000 newborns are infected every year in this disease.

The World Health Organization has recently announced a special program to save children from cancer. It is possible to save the life of at least one million children if the program announced by 2030 is possible to save lives.

According to the World Health Organization, children like adults have one of the main causes of cancer. Every year, about 300,000 newborn babies are affected by cancer in the age group of 19-year-old children. In the mid-and-low-income countries, the death rate of children with cancer is four times higher than those of high-income countries. Because in mid-and-low-income countries, diagnosis is delayed and in most cases it is not possible for the family to continue treatment. Besides, there is a lack of experienced and specialist doctors.

Considering this matter seriously, the World Health Organization has announced to reduce the child mortality rate by 60 percent by 2030. The Global Initiative - 2030 has been announced by the Global Initiative-2030 for children's cancer control. Wherever it has been said, by 2030, the rate of cancer of children will be reduced by 60 percent. To ensure that it would be possible to save the life of at least one million children.

According to the company's information, cancer is one of the main causes of global death. In 2016, 96 million people are believed to have died due to this disease. The lungs, prostate, colorectal, stomach and liver cancer are among the most common. On the other hand, cervical, breast, colorectal, lungs, thyroid cancer is most likely to be noticed among women. However, the number of children suffering from acute tumor type of cancer such as leukemia, brain cancer, lymphoma, new tubalastoma and wills tumor.

In the high income countries, more than 80 percent of children with cancer were cured of cancer. This rate is not more than 20 percent in the middle and lower income countries. However, it is possible to cure child cancer if it is necessary to ensure necessary medicines, surgery and radiotherapy including at the right time. On the other hand, the number of deaths due to the disease is increasing due to wrong or delay, mid-way treatment, side effects, due to lack of necessary treatment and services.

The World Health Organization has taken various steps to implement the announced program. In the meantime, the concept of childhood cancer through awareness increases in global and national levels. Apart from ensuring the availability of medicines and technologies in lower and middle-income countries, it is necessary to help the governments by evaluating the diagnosis and treatment of cancer by assessing the present capabilities of treatment.

In this case, if necessary, take action to prepare the National Strategy, Health Benefit Package and Social Insurance Scheme to counter childhood cancer. In this context, the director general of the World Health Organization. Tadros Adham Ghabriasas said that due to cancer, many children in the world are being deprived of perfect life. Problems in poor countries in comparison to rich countries. It is expected that necessary initiative will be implemented in this regard.

In context, cancer begins with a single genetic mutation of cells and at one stage that goes beyond control. In most cases the cancer forms the tumor. If it is not treated then it usually grows, attacks other parts of the body and causes death. Most of the causes of cancer in adults are not known because of cancer in adults.

In many studies, the causes of child cancer are being identified. However, it is known that very few causes of cancer are due to environmental or lifestyle issues. According to experts, some chronic infections cause the risk of child cancer and its prevalence in low-and middle-income countries. HIV, epstein-bar virus and malaria etc. increase the risk of cancer in childhood.