Child mortality high

NEPALGUNJ, Aug 5: At least 33 out of every 1000 newborn children die in Nepal, a data reveals here. The government has started establishing ´birth centre´ in remote rural areas to make the newborn child care and safe motherhood program effective in line with its objective to reduce the mortality to 16 out of 1000 by 2015.



It is found that 42 percent of newborn die of "little good and easy-going environment" for child delivery while 29 percent is caused by under-weight on birth. Likewise, sometimes child die of suffocation in the womb of mother having physically weak.[breaak]



According to Banke District Public Health Office, total 227 newborn infants breathed their last in less than 28 days in Banke last year, which calls for implementing newborn-child- care and safe motherhood program effectively.

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