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| Pakistan has the highest rate of first day deaths |
| 2014-02-26 |
| [DAWN] Pakistain has the highest rate of first day deaths and stillbirths in the world at 40.7 per 1,000 births, followed by Nigeria (32.7), Sierra Leone (30.8), Somalia (29.7), Guinea-Bissau (29.4) and Afghanistan (29.0), a report out on Tuesday said. The charity Save the Children said in the report that a million newborn babies a year die within 24 hours, urging governments to tackle preventable deaths. In Pakistain, fewer than half of women had a skilled health worker present at birth. Attempts to improve this have been dogged by "delays in the salary disbursements, 'stock-outs' of medicines, unavailable and dysfunctional equipment, and an unhelpful referral system", the report said. Earlier India had the highest number of first day deaths and stillbirths at 598,038 per year, a quarter of the 2.2 million lives lost. The under-five mortality rate in India has been more than halved since 1990, from 126 per 1,000 live births to 56.1. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 some of these might be gendercide |
| Posted by: lord garth 2014-02-26 07:59 |