CHILDREN’S DEATH-RATE DECREASES IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN, APRIL 7, NOYAN TAPAN. This year the motto of the Day of
World Health, April 7, is “Every Mother, Every Child in the Center of
Attention.” Karine Saribekian, Chief of the Department on Protection
of Mother’s and Child’s Health of RA Ministry of Health, reported
during the April 6 discussion dedicated to mother’s and child’s
health that every minute 5 children die in the world during the first
week of their life, 8 during the first month, 8 still-born children
are born and 1 woman dies during the pregnancy or childbirth. At
the same time K.Saribekian said that compared with 90-s children’s
death-rate in Armenia decreased. At the beginning of 90-s 26 out of
every 100 newborn children died during the first year of life while
now the average index makes 12.5%. According to K.Saribekian, cases
of maternal death decrease year by year. At the beginning of 90-s
maternal death-rate made 40 per 100 thousand children, while during
the recent years this index makes 25.