Child mortality rate in Bangladesh drops by 73pc in 25 years

Bangladesh has brought down the child mortality rate by 73 per cent over the last 25 years side by side with already achieving, according to the UNICEF report, the target of reducing under-five mortality rate, reports BSS.
Nearly half of all under-five deaths are associated with malnutrition. Over the past 25 years, the world has made a significant progress in saving young children's lives. The rate of child mortality fell 62 per cent from 1990-2016, with under-five deaths dropping from 12.7 million to 5.6 million.
The death of a child at any age is a profoundly painful experience for the parents and the near and dear ones. While bereavement is stressful whenever it occurs, studies continue to provide the evidence that the greatest stress and often the most enduring one occurs for the parents who experience the death of a child.
The saddest enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained. Former US President late Dwight D Eisenhower once said, "There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were."
The UNICEF report highlights that a child's chance of survival still depends vastly on where he or she is born. Hence, the UN body in 2016 estimated 32.9 deaths per 1,000 live births globally, which was updated in July, 2017.
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher mortality and morbidity rates and their children are more likely to die in infancy.
Siblings of dead children have also been found to be at greater risk for externalising and internalising problems when compared to norms and controls within 2 years of the death.
A new report from UNICEF and its partners in the Inter- Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME), Levels and Trends in Child Mortality:
Report 2017 shows the full scope of child and newborn mortality in the world.