Refusing to go to a paediatrician for even minor ailments could prove fatal in case of an infant. Representational pic

Mumbai has a grave situation on its hands, and we don’t know it. As many as 4,934 children die every year in the city before their first birthday. According to data sought exclusively by mid-day from the civic administration, 29,609 infants (aged 0-1) died in the city from 2010-15. Simply put, over 13 infants die every day in the city — a number that is higher than the average railway track deaths (9) recorded in Mumbai every day.