In June, 18-year-old Parsula Takre attended the funeral of her first child who she did not have a chance to name. A few villagers gathered and buried her son. Takre gave birth when she was just seven months pregnant, weighed only 45 kg and was anaemic. The premature baby weighed just 1.9 kilograms instead of the ideal 2.5 kilograms or more. Takre had been too weak to breastfeed her child. Every resident in the region seems to know of a family who has lost a child that is almost always a premature baby. According to records in Dadra and Nagar Haveli's only hospital, 167 newborn babies died within four weeks of birth in 2014-'15 – a 128% increase from 2011-'12 when 73 newborns died.

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