[Jesu!]...Nigeria is ‘169th worst place to be born’

 

Of 176 countries Nigeria has been ranked 169 worst place for a child to be born.

Internationally non-governmental organisation, Save the Children, stated this in its World’s Mother’s Report made available yesterday.
Its Country Director, Susan Grant, said the health of mothers determines how their babies would fare in life, adding that about 89,700 babies die the same day they are born in Nigeria.

She spoke during the...
launch of the report – tagged Surviving the first day – in Lagos.
Nigeria, she said, is rated 12th highest on babies who die on their first day across the world, which made it one of the riskiest places to be born and one of the countries with the most first-day deaths.
Grant said 12 per cent of under five deaths in the country take place on the day the child is born, adding that 34 per cent take place within the first month of birth.
“In Nigeria 14 out of 1,000 newborns die the same day they were born, which is higher than the regional average (12 per 1,000),” she said.

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