World Health Day 2005
Shashi Khan Bottala Bazar, Bottala , Tangail- 1900
Wordsworth said " Child is the father of the nation". The slogan for World Health Day 2005 is " Make every mother and child count". In developing countries, pregnancy and childbirth are one of the leading causes of death of women of reproductive age, and one child in 12 does not reach his or her fifth birthday. So everyone has to take care of the health of the Mother and the Child. Governments and the international community need to make the health of women and children a high priority. The wellbeing of societies is directly linked to the health and survival of mothers and children. When mothers survive and thrive, their children survive and thrive. When both mothers and children survive and thrive, the society where they live in will prosper. Too many mothers and children in the world are dying or suffering from ill health due to poor nutrition and inadequate health care. Each year more that half a million mothers die during childbirth. At the same time 10.6 million children under the age of five years die from a handful of preventable and curable diseases. Nearly all these deaths occur in low and middle-income countries- and mainly amongst the poorest of the poor . Every minute a woman dies from complications of pregnancy and childbirth. That means 1,400 women die every day--more than half a million women die every year. Every minute, 20 children under the age of five years die. That means nearly 30, 000 children die every day. The issues deserve immediate attention.
|
|
