Kenya: Siaya's Worrying Child Death Statistics

4 November 2013

THE World Vision says Siaya county has surpassed the national figure of the infant mortality rate. World Vision says the county's infant mortality rate stands at 135 per 1,000 live births against the National figure of 52 per 1,000 live births.

National director Dickens Thunde says Siaya's child mortality rate stands at 117 per 1,000 live births against 31,000 per 1,000 nationally. "It is of great concern to us that infant mortality rate remains high in Siaya," he said.

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