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).
