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Uganda: Three Million Children Lack Basic Healthcare
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The Monitor (Kampala)
13 May 2008
Posted to the web 12 May 2008
Kakaire A. Kirunda
Kampala
Fifty four per cent of children under the age of five in Uganda do not get the basic healthcare when they need it, according to this year's world's mothers report. The report that is published by the charity Save the Children was released last week.
Basing on data for the year 2006, it shows that 3, 133, 000 out of 5, 840, 000 children under the age of five cannot access basic healthcare. "Poor and marginalised families do not get basic healthcare because it is simply unavailable, too far away or too expensive," the report reads in part.
The report says children in these countries are missing out on lifesaving interventions like of maternal and newborn care and immunization.
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