mother and child week programe

Peshawar:  Family planning and primary Health care, Ministry of Health is launching the Mother  & Child week, from 14 to 19 November 2011.

The CIRD coordinator Dr Nosheen Kan said in a press conference in press club Peshawar that in Pakistan every year 432,000 children dies under-five years and 20,000 mothers due to pregnancy and child birth. While in Khyber pakhtunkhwa province100 of every 1000 children die before their fifth birthday due to the pneumonia and diarrhea.  Pneumonia and diarrhea are seasonal calamities and preventable.

She said that Pakistan has committed that to a Millennium Development Goal of reducing under-five deaths to 52 per 1,000 births. She said that we are start it from the three camps including the Jalozai,Benazir and Togh Sarai camps of internally displaced persons for awareness of delivery on Maternal, New born and child health care. She further said that we are trying to reduce the rate of child death.