PHNOM PENH, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) — Thursday (Sept. 15) Yook Sambath, Cambodian Minister of Health. It revealed that the maternal and child mortality rate in Cambodia has declined significantly over the past seven years between 2014 and 2021.
Sambat said the maternal mortality rate was 154 per 100,000 live children in 2021, down from 170 in 2014, while the child mortality rate was eight last year. The number of live births was 1,000, down from 18 in 2014, with about 1.41 million mothers giving birth to their babies in hospitals across the country in the past five years. Received 11 vaccinations against diseases such as tuberculosis, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, measles, hepatitis B. meningitis, pneumonia, and rubella He added that 95 per cent of infants had received the above vaccination doses and that Cambodia successfully eradicated polio in 2000 and measles in 2015.