China facing higher rate of born-defect-babies

China facing higher rate of born-defect-babies

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China is now worried with babies born with abnormalities as the rate of born-defect-babies is at present all time high. Some babies are born with abnormalities every year all over the world. Abnormalities are noticed immediately in the form of cleft lips, extra fingers and toes and congenital cardio-vascular problems.

Statistics of the last year only states that Beijing has experienced it very prominently. The rate in the born-defect-babies in the capital city, it has been studied, has just doubled within a decade. It is now far above the world rate. The rate in Beijing is 170 for each ten thousand babies.

This discouraging spectacle is not limited to the capital city of Beijing. Growth in the rate of babies born with abnormalities has been observed in rural and urban areas of the modern China. Reports of the same have been received from a few provinces which are famous for chemical and coal industries. Thus observers have been seriously considering the factor pointing to the environmental pollution.

China, like other socialist countries, has always paid little attention to the question of environment. With the blindly higher rate of industrialization China has been contributing menacingly to the acute water, air and water pollutions years after years.

A section of the Chinese intelligentsia has rightly considering the lifestyle factors. As China has embraced capitalist path of economic development despite her political authority claiming themselves as ‘true communists’ individuals have become busier and have been forced into a faster life full of stress and strain of the modern world.

Still feature of such higher rate of born-defect-babies in the mainland China has raised question on the provisions for health and social security. But the actual reasons behind the same are subject of serious researches.