Maternal, Newborn, Child Health: Mortality Rates Curbed, Hospital Delivery Figures Raised
Maternal, Newborn, Child Health: Mortality Rates Curbed, Hospital Delivery Figures Raised According to the last Cameroon Demographic and Health Survey and the 2014 Multi-indicator Cluster Survey Statistics, MICS report, about 7,000 women die in the country due to pregnancy complications or during delivery. While neonatal mortality (the death rate of babies in the first 28 days of life) was 28 deaths per 1,000 live births. Concerned by the situation, government, with the support of the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF and the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, launched the ...