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A story of the Magic Elixir - ORS

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Is ORS the Perfect Solution to Diarrhea?

In 2005-2006, only 26% of children with diarrhea received ORS packets. But by 2015-2016, this had risen to 51%. And by 2019-2021, 61% of children began receiving ORs packets. In the meantime, the death count attributed to diarrhea among children under 5 dropped from 2,000 or 12,000 to 55,000 in 2019. Having said that, there's still a long way to bridge that gap. Although 94% of all women now claim to know about ORS packets, it still hasn't found its way to every household. As a consequence, diarrhea still kills over 1.1 lakh children in India every year. We still need to

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