A newborn dies every 39 seconds
Teena Thacker | May 20, 2014, 03.05 am IST
New Delhi: India has the highest number of newborn deaths in the
world. According to the new report, half of the newborn deaths
worldwide occur in just five countries, with India recording the
highest at 7,79,000 per year, followed by Nigeria (2,76,000), Pakistan
(2,02,400), China (1,57,000), and the Democratic Republic of Congo
(1,18,000).
A comprehensive new review published in the Lancet has revealed an
enormous burden that stillbirths and newborn deaths continue to exert,
with nearly 8,000 newborn babies dying every day (2·9 million deaths
per year). According to experts although global and national figures
conceal huge variations within and between different countries.
The team led by Professor Joy Lawn, at the London School of Hygiene &
Tropical Medicine and Save the Children, UK, suggest that even though
overall rate of newborn deaths have been declining since 1990, the
rate of reduction between 1990 and 2012 (2·0% average annual rate of
reduction) is much lower than that for children aged 1-59 months
(3·4%), and also lower than the maternal mortality between 1990 and
2013 (2·6%).
The authors estimated that 2·6 million stillbirths (during the last 3
months of pregnancy) occur annually (around 7000 every day).
Significantly, an estimated 1·2 million women experience the loss of
their baby during labour, after a full nine months of pregnancy.
These babies, who may die just five minutes before birth, account for
nearly half of all stillbirths, but do not count in global data or
have any global targets.
According to Professor Lawn, the study results highlight an important,
yet largely unacknowledged, global problem.
"In most countries stillbirths do not get birth or death certificates,
which contributes to their invisibility. Hence, most of the world's
newborn deaths and almost all stillbirths enter and leave the world
without a piece of paper to record their existence. The fact that the
vast majority of these deaths, which have a huge effect on the women
and families involved, are never formally included in a country's
health registration systems which signifies acceptance that these
deaths are inevitable, and ultimately links to inaction in the health
sector."
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