New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- India has made huge progress in improving maternal mortality rate (MMR) and infant mortality rate (IMR) and is well on track to meet global targets, Union minister of state for health Anupriya Patel said in the Lok Sabha during Question Hour on Friday.

"India has better progress if one compares it with the overall global progress made in maternal and infant mortality rate - MMR and IMR. If one looks at the global numbers, while the global rate of decline for MMR in the past 30 years - between 1990 and 2020 - has been 42%, the decline has been 83% for India. In addition, the global rate of decline for infant mortality in the same period has been 55%, and for India, the decline has been 69%," she said.

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