Global alarm as pneumonia kills 1 child every 39 seconds

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Global alarm as pneumonia kills 1 child every 39 seconds

By Sola Ogundipe

Nigeria contributes the highest number to global pneumonia child deaths! Pneumonia – a preventable disease – kills more children globally than any other infection!!

These were the screaming headlines on this year’s World Pneumonia Day – 12th November, following the release of the latest data on the global burden of the biggest killer of little children- pneumonia.

The new analysis by UNICEF and partners revealed that pneumonia claimed the lives of more than 800,000 children under the age of five globally in 2018, or one child every 39 seconds, even as Nigeria recorded the highest-burden with an estimated 162,000 deaths or 443 deaths per day (18 deaths every hour),

Four other countries – India (127,000), Pakistan (58,000), the Democratic Republic of Congo (40,000) and Ethiopia (32,000), along with Nigeria were responsible for more than half of child pneumonia deaths.

The analysis produced by UNICEF based on the WHO and…



Source: Vanguard Newspaper