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THARPARKAR – Malnutrition and epidemics continue to claim more lives, while three more children have died within 24 hours, the health department said Saturday.
According to the details, three children expired at the Mithi Hospital, in Tharparkar, while several other people with malnutrition and epidemics were still under treatment.
According to health services, 1,500 children die each year from malnutrition, infections and lack of adequate medical facilities in the remote region.
Earlier, a report released by the United Nations Fund for Children in April 2018 indicated that Pakistan was among the countries with the highest infant mortality rate, 22 children dying before having a month . Of these, eight are in Africa and two in Asia, including Afghanistan, which ranks third.
"Pakistan is the most risky country to be born, measured by its neonatal mortality rate," the report says. "A baby born in Pakistan is almost 50 times more likely to die in his first month than a baby born in Japan, Iceland and Singapore."
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