A child dies every 5 seconds, and most are preventable deaths: UN

Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 03:31 in Health & Medicine

An estimated 6.3 million children died before their 15th birthdays in 2017, or one every five seconds, mostly due to a lack of water, sanitation, nutrition and basic health care, according to report by United Nations agencies on Tuesday.

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