Shabait.com (Asmara)
19 April 2008
Asmara — A major international report published on April 16 highlighted the impressive achievements Eritrea has registered in reducing child and mother mortality rate.
The report pointed out that despite the fact that no noticeable improvement has been witnessed in reducing infant mortality rate at global level, few countries, including Eritrea has registered encouraging accomplishments, and as such are exemplary.
The report further revealed that Eritrea is among the 16 countries that are showing significant progress towards ensuring the reduction of infant and maternal mortality rate by two thirds before the year 2015, as part of the Millennium Development Goals adopted by the UN in 2000.
In a statement he gave to ERINA in connection with the international report, the Director of family and community health care in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Zemui Alemu, noted that Eritrea's achievement in reducing child and mother mortality rate is the outcome of the Government's vigorous endeavors to promote equitable health service throughout the country, coupled with the effective vaccination campaigns to infants nationwide and the like.
It is to be recalled that a report published by UNICEF in 2007 cited Eritrea as being one of the 4 countries that registered impressive achievement in reducing child and mother mortality rate.
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