Representational photo Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka TribuneThe Save the Children report also said this is the highest rate cut in South AsiaBangladesh has successfully reduced child death rates in South Asia as the country’s child mortality rate—for children under the age of five —decreased by 63% in the last 20 years. In 1990, the WHO Global Health Observatory data said 532,000 child deaths occurred in Bangladesh, and that has now been cut to around 100,000 annually, reports BSS. Bangladesh launched the National Newborn Health Program to further reduce deaths for children under the age of five. However, pneumonia still remains the leading cause of death among children below the age of five as two children die of pneumonia, every hour, in Bangladesh. Around 16% of the deaths of children aged below five years are caused by pneumonia, according to the National Situation Analysis Report of Pneumonia 2018.

Source: Dhaka Tribune June 07, 2019 09:00 UTC