{"id":82618,"date":"2016-08-01T08:21:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T08:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/child-mortality-rate-remains-high-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2016-08-01T08:21:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T08:21:21","slug":"child-mortality-rate-remains-high-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/child-mortality-rate-remains-high-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Child mortality rate remains high in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/8 August\/1 Aug\/kodakan.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): Officials at the ministry of public health have said that more than 100,000 children under 5 lose their lives in Afghanistan due to various diseases each year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the annual World Breastfeeding Week event held here in Kabul, they said that 48,000 out of 100,000 children under five die from malnutrition which is an alarming rate.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons behind child mortality rate is associated with lack of breastfeeding.<\/p>\n<p>Najia Tariq, an official at the ministry of public health, said that breastfeeding could significantly reduce child mortality rate.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"394\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/8 August\/1 Aug\/sehat.jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She said that lack of breastfeeding could cause diarrhea in children and could affect the infants&rsquo; brain growth.<\/p>\n<p>She added that to reduce child mortality rate, ministry of information and culture, ministry of women&rsquo;s affairs and other national and international institutions should launch awareness programs across the country.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials at the ministry of public health have said that more than 100,000 children under 5 lose their lives in Afghanistan due to various diseases each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-82618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}