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WHO: An infant dies every two hours in Azerbaijan

WHO: An infant dies every two hours in Azerbaijan
# 17 April 2012 08:46 (UTC +04:00)
Baku. Kamala Guliyeva – APA. An infant dies every two hours in Azerbaijan, said representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) Sevil Asadova during the presentation of Facts for Life handbook organized by UNICEF representation in Azerbaijan. She said this was a terrible statistics. “We can prevent it, but it doesn’t depend only on doctors. All population, parents should be educated in this sphere. Unfortunately there are few books in Azerbaijani”.

Asadova said about 10 percent of three million children in Azerbaijan are refugees and internally displaced persons because of unresolved regional conflict. Three of every four women and two of every five children suffer from anemia caused by non-adequate nutrition. One of every four children is undersized. Only one of every four children is nourished with mother’s milk. All of these problems cause various child diseases.
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