INFECTIOUS disease experts from European countries and other developed economies, observing our major public hospitals, cannot seem to fathom why our young are still dying of whooping cough and other respiratory diseases eradicated from their home countries generations ago.
The Unicef, an institution that steers away from interpreting its findings and from controversy, provided a snapshot of what lies ahead for our children suffering from severe food poverty.From this specific cohort, around 95 children die on a daily basis. Some 27 out of 1,000 food-short children do not get past their fifth birthdays.A similar World Bank report on child malnutrition also offered grim figures.