Nearly 8500 newborns in Bangladesh on New Year’s Day: UNICEF

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Published : 16:03, Jan 01, 2019 | Updated : 16:47, Jan 01, 2019

Nearly 8500 babies will be born in Bangladesh on New Year’s Day, said UNICEF. (/CCO)Nearly 8500 babies will be born in Bangladesh on New Year’s Day, said UNICEF.

In a press release, published on its website on New Year’s Eve, UNICEF said an estimated 8,428 babies will be born in Bangladesh on the first day of 2019.

In cities around the world, revelers will welcome not only the New Year with great festivities but also their newest and tiniest residents, read the release.

An estimated 395, 072 babies will be born worldwide on this day, it says adding a quarter of them will be born in South Asia alone.

Fiji in the Pacific will most likely deliver 2019’s first baby; the United States, its last. Globally, over half of these births are estimated to take place in eight countries:

In 2017, about 1 million babies died the day they were born, and 2.5 million in just their first month of life.

Among those children, most died from preventable causes such as premature birth, complications during delivery, and infections like sepsis and pneumonia, a violation of their basic right to survival, adds the release.

“This New Year Day, let’s all make a resolution to fulfill every right of every child, starting with the right to survive,” said Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director.

“We can save millions of babies if we invest in training and equipping local health workers so that every newborn is born into a safe pair of hands,” he added.

 

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