Ten percent Children in Pakistan Die Below 5 years of age

10 percent of Pakistani children die before the age of five, and the lack of doctors trained in Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) is a big contributor to the country’s high under five mortality rate.

These were some of the conclusions local and international experts reached at the “Third Annual Emergency Medicine Conference on Emergency Care for Children” held at Aga Khan University in Karachi last Saturday.

Pakistan has long suffered from astonishing high infant and under-five mortality rates. A report published last year by the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) found that in 2011, one child died every minute from EPI (expanded program on immunization diseases), diarrhea and acute respiratory infection (ARI).



The same report said that an average of 400,000 infants die before their first birthday in Pakistan every year, and one in thirty die immediately after birth.

According to the PMA report, the most common and lethal diseases in the country as a whole are ARI, viral hepatitis, malaria, diarrhea, dysentery, scabies, goiter, hepatitis and tuberculosis. Children suffer from all of these in Pakistan, although some more than others. For example, it is estimated that 20 percent of all diarrhea patients are children.

Poor social conditions and lack of government services push the rate of these diseases up. For example, diarrhea is often caused by drinking contaminated water. On the other hand, malaria is carried by mosquitoes who are attracted to rural villages and lower-income slums in the cities by contaminated and stagnant water bodies.

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