In 2012, a 12-day-old boy (we will call him “Baby Boy”) in Assam’s Sivasagar district could not be given his feed because he had lockjaw his face muscles went rigid, making it impossible for him to open his mouth. As the spasms spread from Baby Boy’s jaw downwards, his body writhed and went into violent spasms, advanced symptoms of the bacterial infection called tetanus. It’s been about three years, but Jenita Baruah, 39, remembers Baby Boy well. He was the last neonatal tetanus case that Baruah an assistant professor of community medicine at the Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh saw.

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