CHILD KILLERIn October alone, John Ngasike reveals that the paediatric ward admitted 157 children for various illnesses, top among them pneumonia. For Ngasike, the clinical officer in charge at the Lodwar hospital, what worries him most are the deaths of children from pneumonia. “When you look at mortality, pneumonia features greatly as one of the causes. She adds that Amoxicillin DT represents the single greatest chance of survival for children sick with pneumonia. Kisii, Nyamira, Turkana, Kakamega, Siaya, Tana River, Wajir, Bungoma and Busia had an under five pneumonia mortality rate of between 12 and 14 per 1,000 live births.

Source: Daily Nation January 13, 2020 07:52 UTC