The child mortality rate in large parts of the west and north of Colombia is as high as in some parts of Africa's most depressing regions, the country's Health Ministry announced on Friday.
While in cities like Bogota 12 of every 1000 children under one die, the mortality rate in departments like Choco in the west of the country and La Guajira in the north is more than three times as high. "There, of all 1000 children that are born, 40 die before their first birthday," Lenis Urquijo, director of Colombia's Public Health department told Canal Caracol.
According to the government official, these figures are as high as in parts of Africa where hunger and the absence of health care causes the world's highest number of deaths among babies.
"In Colombia there are departments and municipalities that have a child mortality rate that is much higher than the national average, with levels similar of countries with a lot less development," Urquijo said.
The saddest thing of this high number of child deaths is that in most cases babies die of preventable causes, the Public Health director said. If authorities know to increase the coverage of vaccinations and mother deliver to these vaccination points on time, a lot of "unneccesary" deaths could be prevented. "Equally important is the care of expecting mothers," the official added.
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... This is the real reason why the Uribistas are terrified of Venezuela, or Bolivia, they know the people starving might just decide to also take matters into their own hands. Before Bluebird attacks: Venezuelans consume 2,790 calories daily, slightly more than the 2,700 calories that the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the UN suggests is the daily requirement, according to National Nutrition Institute (INN) Director Marilyn Di Luca. Malnutrition has diminished from 21% eleven years ago to 6% currently, owing to the government’s agriculture and food distribution policies, Di Luca said. She said Venezuela ranks fifth in Latin America for lowest nutritional deficiency amongst children, with Cuba, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina ranking higher. |
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... one of the hard things is to find hard numbers based equal country to country, i looked at WHO and reports on Colombia are written different from Venezula, making comparisions difficult. I found the infoant death rate per 1000 births at 19 to 21 in 2000 or 2002 interesting found in Venezula in 1940 the number was 123 and dropped to 18.3 per 1000 births by 2002. also found that in Colombia wealth didn't always help with these numbers Mortality Rate, Under 5, Poorest Fifth 39 Mortality Rate, Under 5, Middle Fifth 24 Mortality Rate, Under 5, Richest Fifth 20 Children Fully Vaccinated, Poorest Fifth (%) 50 Children Fully Vaccinated, Middle Fifth (%) 70 Children Fully Vaccinated, Richest Fifth (%) 65 then there is this on Colombia Undernourished Population, 2002-2004 (%) Colombia13 World14 Underweight Children Age |
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... looks like my proir post got caught off will try to redo later but find this interesting number # 1 Paraguay: 0.15753 deaths per 1 million peo # 2 Ecuador: 0.0748279 deaths per 1 million peo # 3 Argentina: 0.0252921 deaths per 1 million peo # 4 Colombia: 0.0232807 deaths per 1 million peo # 5 Mexico: 0.00941593 deaths per 1 million peo # 6 Brazil: 0.00537308 deaths per 1 million peo Malnutrition in pregnancy |
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... Mortality Rate, Under 5, Poorest Fifth 39 Mortality Rate, Under 5, Middle Fifth 24 Mortality Rate, Under 5, Richest Fifth 20 Children Fully Vaccinated, Poorest Fifth (%) 50 Children Fully Vaccinated, Middle Fifth (%) 70 Children Fully Vaccinated, Richest Fifth (%) 65 Undernourished Population, 2002-2004 (%) Colombia13 Venezula 18 World14 Underweight Children Age |
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... Andrew the National Nutrition Institute you quote it is a Venezula government agency? when I google National Nutrition Institute I com eup with didfferent countries government agencies. |
