Kaduna — About one million Nigerian children die every year mostly from preventable diseases including pneumonia, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, hepatitis B infection, whooping cough, measles and meningitis among others, the President of Paediatric Association of Nigeria (PAN), Dr. Ngozi Ibeziako has said.
She made this statement yesterday while addressing newsmen at the 48th PAN Conference holding in Kaduna. She said perinatal and neonatal mortality and morbidity rate in Nigeria was one of the highest in the world.
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