Sentences with phrase «newborns die every year»

About 2.7 million newborns die every year, many because their mothers didn't have access to significant medical care.

«It's tragic that millions of newborns die every year, especially when these deaths are so easily preventable,» Gates wrote.

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It's sad to think about, but more than 3 million newborn babies die in developing countries, every year.

Unfortunately though, SIDS is still a real worry for parents of newborns, and more than 2,500 infants die every year from the syndrome.

Maurine Wallace, 75, who gave thousands of newborns their first baths as a nurse's aide for Palos Community Hospital in Palos Heights, died Sunday of a brain hemorrhage in the hospital where she had worked for 26 years.

More than 2,000 children, newborn to age 14, die each year from preventable injuries at home.

This walk is dedicated to approximately 870,000 babies who die each year through miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, or newborn death.

When I finally ended with «are you really more concerned that you — a fairly healthy 59 year old may have a few days of flu - like illness or that your newborn granddaughter could have influenza or pertussis, go to the NICU, require ventilator support, and ultimately die?»

WHO / UNICEF Joint Statement on home - based care of newborns Authors: WHO / UNICEF Number of pages: 8 Publication date: 2009 Languages: English [pdf 259kb] • French [pdf 269kb] • Spanish [pdf 292kb] WHO reference number: WHO / FCH / CAH / 09.02 Every year, about 3.7 million babies die in the first four weeks of life (2004 estimates).

They are 13 times more likely to die in their first year of life than other newborns.