Kantha Bopha announces drop in infant mortality rate

The Kantha Bopha Hospitals founded by Swiss paediatrician Dr Beat Richner, who passed away last year aged 71, has reported a drop in the infant mortality rate last year.

“The mortality rate among hospitalised children was 0.23 per cent, while in 2017, the mortality rate among hospitalised children was 0.25 per cent,” said a report issued by Kantha Bopha Hospitals dated Monday and obtained by The Post on Wednesday.

The Kantha Bopha report stated that 961,256 sick children received outpatient care, while 161,426 seriously sick children and 14,615 suffering severely from dengue haemorrhagic fever had to be hospitalised.

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