YANGON, Myanmar - Hundreds of children under age 5 die from preventable diseases each day in military-ruled Myanmar, the second-worst mortality rate for children in Asia except for Afghanistan, U.N. officials said Wednesday.
Dr. Osamu Kunii, the nutrition expert in Myanmar for the U.N. Children's Fund, said there were between 100,000 to 150,000 child deaths per year in the country _ or between 270 and 400 daily.
He was speaking at a briefing by UNICEF of its annual report on "The State of the World's Children," released Tuesday. The under-5 mortality rate is a critical indicator of the well-being of children.
About 21 percent of child deaths in Myanmar are caused by acute respiratory infection, followed by pneumonia, diarrhea and septicemia.
The report rated Myanmar as having the 40th highest child mortality rate in the world, surpassed in Asia only by Afghanistan, which has the third-worst record after Sierra Leone and Angola.
It said, however, the death rate for young children in Myanmar had been reduced by 1.6 percent between 1990 and 2006.
In 2000, the World Health Organization ranked Myanmar's overall health care system as the world's second worst after war-ravaged Sierra Leone. Tens of thousands of people in Myanmar die each year from malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS, dysentery, diarrhea and other illnesses.
Most of Myanmar's health care is funded by international sources, with the government spending only about 3 percent on health annually, compared with 40 percent on the military, according to a report published this year by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University.
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အသက္ေပ်ာက္ခဲ့ၿပီ ငွက္ငယ္ေလးမ်ားမွာ ႐ုပ္၀တၳဳေတြ ေမ်ာပါျမစ္ျပင္အႏွံ႔အျပား
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သန္းေခါင္ယံညရဲ႕ ဆုေတာင္းမ်ားစြာ ျပည့္၀ခြင့္ဟာ အားလံုးရဲ႕ အေျဖလား
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ဆံုး႐ံႈးေပ်ာက္ကြယ္ခ်ိန္မွာ ႏွစ္သိမ့္မႈကို ငါတို႔ေပးႏိုင္မလား
စာနာမႈနဲ႔ ေဖးကူမလား ဒီေျမေပၚ အတူႀကီးျပင္း တို႔ေသြးရင္းပါ
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(ေလးျဖဴ) ဆံုး႐ံႈးခဲ့တဲ့ တို႔ဘ၀ေတြ အတူျပန္လည္တည္ေဆာက္ၾကမယ္
အေႏြးေထြးဆံုးဒီအခ်စ္မ်ားနဲ႔ အူး..
(မ်ိဳးႀကီး) ရင္ဆိုင္ၾကဖို႔ လက္ေတြ အတူ.. တြဲထား အိုး ဘ၀ေတြ
တေခါက္ျပန္လွေစဖို႔ အတူတူျဖစ္ေစရမယ္ တို႔ရဲ႕လက္မ်ားနဲ႔ (လက္မ်ားနဲ႔)
မင္း.. အခ်စ္နဲ႔လက္မ်ား ေပးလိုက္ေပါ့ ဘ၀မ်ားစြာ ႐ွင္သန္ဖို႔ အခြင့္ေတြဟာ
ကူညီသူကို ေစာင့္စား
အခ်စ္.. ကမ္းမယ့္လက္မ်ား ၀မ္းနည္းမႈ အိမ္ထဲ ေၾကကြဲ ေရထဲ
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မင္း.. အခ်စ္နဲ႔လက္မ်ား ေပးလိုက္ေပါ့ ဘ၀မ်ားစြာ ႐ွင္သန္ဖို႔ အခြင့္ေတြဟာ
ကူညီသူကို ေစာင့္စား
အခ်စ္.. ကမ္းမယ့္ (တို႔လက္မ်ား) လက္မ်ား ၀မ္းနည္းမႈ အိမ္ထဲ ေၾကကြဲ ေရထဲ
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