BENGALURU: The
Infant Mortality Rate
(IMR) in Karnataka is 2 percent (around 20 per 1000 live births), and the aim is to bring it down to single digit, chief minister
Basavaraj Bommai
said on Sunday. He also advocated the need for bringing down
Maternal Mortality Rate
in the state.
“The IMR and MMR is much lower in the state except for 5-6 districts which have dragged the state a bit down. So we are giving special focus to these districts. For the first time in the history of the state we have ident