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As Turkey already afresh turns its boring to its abortion to appropriately affliction for its babies and accouchement with the latest alternation of baby deaths in an Ankara hospital, statistics acknowledge that baby bloodshed is several times college in Turkey than in the nations of the EU that it badly wants to join

ANKARA - Turkish Daily News

The top amount of baby bloodshed is an important botheration in Turkey, and the deaths of added than two dozen bairn babies at a maternology hospital in Ankara in the accomplished two weeks already afresh highlights the country’s baby bloodshed rate, which is a allotment of the accomplished in Europe.

A absolute of 47 of the 504 babies that were advised in the Zekai Tahir Burak hospital, one of Turkey’s busiest and arch obstetrics and gynecology hospitals, in July died. Of those deaths, 28 took abode in the endure 15 days. The hospital, which handles high-risk births, appear that a lot of of the newborns died due to abortive delivery-related complications.

Turkey’s baby bloodshed amount in 2006 was 24 per 1,000 newborns, which charcoal about six or seven times college than European countries, according to the United Nations Apple Population Prospects report. This is a appreciably top amount compared with adjoining Greece, area 6.7 in 1,000 died in the aforementioned year.

In 2006, the baby bloodshed amount was 4.2 per 1,000 in France, 4.8 in the United Kingdom, 4.3 in Germany, 5.0 in Italy and 4.2 in Spain, according to the U.N. report. Under-five bloodshed ante are still top in Turkey, with 31.6 per 1,000 in 2006. This is appreciably college than in the United Kingdom, area the amount is 6.0; France, area the amount is 5.2; and Germany, area the amount is 5.4.

According to the U.N. Children’s Fund, or UNICEF, and U.N. Development Program, or UNDP, Turkey has apparent cogent advance in abbreviation the baby and under-five bloodshed rates, a ambition set by the two organizations, it but needs to yield added accomplish in this respect.

Organizational problems charge to be apparent

UNICEF letters say rural populations lag abaft burghal citizenry in bloodshed rates, while the UNDP letters say both the under-five bloodshed and the baby bloodshed ante are top compared to added European counties; although a cogent abatement has been empiric in the endure 13 years.

According to the 2007 Millennium Development Goals Address by the UNDP, 10.1 actor accouchement died afore their fifth birthday, mostly from preventable causes, including the measles in particular. The UNDP’s ambition for Turkey for 2015 is to abate under-five bloodshed and baby bloodshed ante by two-thirds amid 1990 and 2015 as able-bodied as to immunize at atomic 95 percent of accouchement by 2015 to action measles.

“Turkey’s advance in baby bloodshed ante is not so able admitting a abatement in contempo years,” said pediatrics assistant Murat Yurdakök of the Ankara-based Hacettepe University.

“The baby bloodshed ante are even college in the east and rural areas. The bread-and-butter development akin of Turkey charcoal a allotment of the accomplished in the apple while the baby bloodshed ante are high, a arresting contrast.”

He said the deficiencies in the antitoxin and careful bloom casework and problems in barometer arrangement are the above affidavit for the top baby bloodshed ante in Turkey. He aswell said ecology in pregnancy, giving bearing in able germ-free altitude and anesthetic were basic in abbreviation the bloodshed figures.

“All these are allotment of a alternation to abate the top abstracts and alignment in all these fields is bigger in the West,” he noted.

Y?lmaz Ate?, the agent baton of the Republican People’s Party, or CHP, meanwhile, visited the Zekai Tahir Burak hospital bygone calm with some CHP assembly and said the apathy of the government and the Bloom Ministry acquired the deaths in the hospital, advancement courts to arbitrate in the incident.

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