Nigeria loses approximately 850,000 newborn and under-five children every year to preventable causes, including prematurity and pneumonia, according to the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate.
Mr Pate disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja at the joint national commemoration of the 2025 World Pneumonia Day and World Prematurity Day.
The event also marked the launch of two major policy documents: the Nigerian Child Survival Action Plan and the National…
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