| The biggest victims of a poverty stricken country | | | | 1. Educating the women folk on the basics of child |
| are its children. Bangladesh has had a dismal track | | | | health care which includes things like importance of |
| record when it has come to kids health. Most of the | | | | breast feeding. This is a very challenging affair |
| children in the country specially in the rural areas | | | | considering the high level of illiteracy in the country. |
| suffer from acute malnutrition. The problem gets | | | | 2. Stressing on equal care for the girl child. The track |
| aggravated as Bangladesh is one of the most densely | | | | record of Bangladesh on the girl child is not |
| populated countries in the world with nearly 1,000 | | | | impressive like its South Asian neighbor India. |
| people per square kilometer. Although there has been | | | | 3. Making people specially the parents aware of the |
| considerable progress in the last 15 years the health | | | | basic nutritional requirement of a child. Giving them |
| of children in Bangladesh is being described as one of | | | | proper break up of the food items required to attain |
| the severe in South Asia. | | | | those minimum levels of nutrition. |
| According to the latest UNICEF report the mortality | | | | 3. Awareness campaigns on the importance of |
| rate in children under-five stands at an alarming 94 | | | | vaccination for the children of all ages in the country. |
| deaths per 1,000 live births. Malnutrition, pneumonia, | | | | 4. Regular counseling to pregnant women regarding |
| diarrhea, malaria, measles, injuries are contributing to | | | | childbirth and advise them on the required nutritional |
| the high rate of neonatal deaths in the country. | | | | level during their pregnancy. |
| Nearly one-half of all children below the age of five | | | | 5. Encourage women to give birth with assistance |
| years are either underweight or stunted. The poor | | | | from trained health personnel and in a health facility. |
| child health care facilities in the country means that | | | | In absence of a proper medical facility experienced |
| most of these children are not vaccinated exposing | | | | midwives, or trained birth attendants should be |
| them to the threats of life threatening diseases. | | | | present during the child birth. |
| There is lack of awareness among women folk in the | | | | The recent years have shown some improvement as |
| country concerning basic issues relating to kids health | | | | far as child health care is concerned but Bangladesh |
| is another key reason resulting in the high mortality | | | | has a long way to go to achieve the minimum |
| rate in children. Some of the areas where more | | | | nutritional and other health level in children. |
| attention need to be focused are: | | | | |