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This common medication could save half a million children's lives each year. So why is it underprescribed?

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Oral rehydration salts (ORS) are a lifesaving and inexpensive treatment for diarrheal disease, a leading cause of death for children worldwide.

India accounts for the most cases of child diarrhea of any country in the world.

Providers' perception that patients do not want ORS accounted for roughly 42% of underprescribing of ORS.

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