{"id":2963,"date":"2022-04-08T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/?p=2963"},"modified":"2022-04-18T14:39:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T09:09:06","slug":"why-do-so-many-infants-die-in-vavuniya-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/why-do-so-many-infants-die-in-vavuniya-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do so many infants  die in Vavuniya District?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last February, there were reports on the mainstream media and social media that a large number of infants had died at the Vavuniya General Hospital. It is also noteworthy that the victims had been making complaints seeking the cause of their child\u2019s death. We have sent the RTI request to the Vavuniya General Hospital for further details. This article is based on the information received from the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Details of the infants who died from the period of 2015 to February 2022 were requested. The hospital responded as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"732\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Death-rate-yearly-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Death-rate-yearly-1.jpg 732w, https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Death-rate-yearly-1-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, when the causes for the deaths of infants were inquired, following causes were reported<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"351\" height=\"302\" src=\"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/reason-for-the-deaths.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/reason-for-the-deaths.jpg 351w, https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/reason-for-the-deaths-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The causes of death in terms of years were stated as follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"363\" height=\"129\" src=\"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/reason-for-death-yearly.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/reason-for-death-yearly.jpg 363w, https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/reason-for-death-yearly-300x107.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"410\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Handdrawn-Pastel-Business-Infographic-1-410x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Handdrawn-Pastel-Business-Infographic-1-410x1024.jpg 410w, https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Handdrawn-Pastel-Business-Infographic-1-120x300.jpg 120w, https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Handdrawn-Pastel-Business-Infographic-1-768x1920.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Handdrawn-Pastel-Business-Infographic-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last February, there were reports on the mainstream media and social media that a large number of infants had died&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions\/2969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}