A Child Dies Once every 4.4 seconds & 1.9 million Babies Are Tragically Stillborn in 2021- UN report.
Daily Rendezvous A child or youth died once every 4.4 seconds in 2021 – UN report Another 1.9 million babies were tragically stillborn during the same period, according to a separate UN report. A report by the United Nations stares that at least a child dies every 4.4 secs and that another 1.9 million Babies are tragically stillborn in 2921. thevreprt further states that, an estimated 5 million children died before their fifth birthday and another 2.1 million children and youth aged between 5–24 years lost their lives in 2021, according to the latest estimates released by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME). In a separate report also released today, the group found that 1.9 million babies were stillborn during the same period. Tragically, many of these deaths could have been prevented with equitable access and high-quality maternal, newborn, adolescent and child health care. “Every day, far too many parents a...