The Millennium Development Goals Of Bhutan

“A millennium submit in 2000, 147 heads of representative from 189 countries adopted the millennium development declaration.” (UNDP, 2003). The millennium development goals emerged after many evolution and follow-ups. MDG tackles the most essential forms of the needs of justice and equality: poverty, illiteracy and ill-health. Mortality and morbidity are some of the concerns, which is goaled in MDG as the health goals. “Health is central to the global agenda of reducing poverty as well as an important measure of human wellbeing.” (WHO, 2005).

Bhutan as a peaceful Nation signed the millennium Development Goals, as to eradicate the poverty and maintain peace in the country. Bhutan thereby worked to blend the MDG and achieve the goals of the MDG as well as maintaining it for the future generations. Bhutan being able to open up to the outside world and signing up in various human development plans has resulted in the improvements in the lives of the people. Health being represented in three of the eight goals acts as the heart of the MDGs, the goal to reduce child mortality, improve maternal health and combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. With the focused facilitations, sound

“Bhutan is committed to reaching MDG 4, which calls for reducing the under-five mortality rate by two thirds between 1990 and 2015” (UNICEF, 2012). Child mortality in Bhutan has been one of the concern, as it lacked the full system of vital registration, had less systems for certifying deaths and carried out few examinations and were still not aware of the causes of the deaths of the children. “However ARI (Acute Respiratory Infection) and diarrhoea have been on the list of Bhutan’s top ten childhood diseases for many decades and still tops the child morbidity charts.” (UNICEF,