On the front cover of Save the Children's latest report ""Ending newborn deaths" is a newborn baby at a clinic in northern Nigeria. But this is about the only positive thing in the report out of our beloved country. The rest makes for very painful reading;
The NGO, "Save the Children" invited different stakeholders working on maternal and child health issues to a meeting in Abuja on the 25th February 2014 to launch their new report. It contained data that does not surprise.
Nigeria still has one of the highest under-five and newborn mortality rates in the world, at 123.7 and 39.2 per 1,000 live births and this is not equally distributed in the country. Unsurprisingly, the under-five mortality rate is nearly 21/2 times higher among the poorest households than the richest households.
Nigeria is second out of the ten countries with the highest rates of first day deaths and still births during labour in the world, behind Pakistan with 33 intrapartum stillbirths and neonatal deaths on day of birth per 1,000 total births.
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