India, Jan. 15 -- The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors approved financing for a program to improve the quality of life and life expectancy for more than 90 million people in West Bengal through wider and more equitable access to quality healthcare.West Bengal has made sustained health gains in the past two decades with infant mortality rates declining from 32 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2010-2012 to 19 in 2018-2020. The total fertility rate is at 1.64 births per woman as of 2019, which is among the lowest in the country. As a result, life expectancy in West Bengal is 72 years, which is higher than the national average. However, in spite of these gains and high literacy rates among adolescent girls (at 89 percent), West Bengal h...