what was the reason of the mother risking the life to save a few things ? explain in detail
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Explanation:
The fourth Millennium Development Goal (MDG 4) aims to reduce the 1990 mortality rate among under-five children by two thirds. Child mortality is also closely linked to MDG 5- to improve maternal health. Since more than one third of all child deaths occur within the first month of life, providing skilled care to mothers during pregnancy, as well as during and after birth, greatly contributes to child survival. Millennium Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2000 aim to decrease child deaths worldwide by 2015.
Key facts
Every year nearly 41% of all under-five child deaths are among newborn infants, babies in their first 28 days of life or the neonatal period.
Three quarters of all newborn deaths occur in the first week of life.
In developing countries nearly half of all mothers and newborns do not receive skilled care during and immediately after birth.
Up to two thirds of newborn deaths can be prevented if known, effective health measures are provided at birth and during the first week of life.
Of the 8.2 million under-five child deaths per year, about 3.3 million occur during the neonatal period —in the first four weeks of life.
The majority - almost 3 million of these - die within one week and almost 2 million on their first day of life.
An additional 3.3 million are stillborn.
A child’s risk of death in the first four weeks of life is nearly 15 times greater than any other time before his or her first birthday.
Virtually all (99%) newborn deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. It is especially in Africa and South Asia that the least progress in reducing neonatal deaths has been made.
Almost 3 million of all the babies who die each year can be saved with low-tech, low-cost care.
The challenge: Making it through the first day
Until recently, there has been little effort to tackle the specific health problems of newborn babies. Most of their deaths are unrecorded and remain invisible. A lack of continuity between maternal and child health programmes has meant that care of the newborn has fallen through the cracks between care of the mother and care of the older child.
The survival and health of newborn babies is a critical part of the push towards lower child mortality in Millennium Development Goal 4, because a large portion of under-five deaths actually occur during the first month of life. Because many of these deaths are related to care at the time of birth, newborn health goes hand in hand with the health of mothers, Millennium Development Goal 5.
According to figures from August 2011, newborn deaths, that is deaths in the first four weeks of life (neonatal period), today account for 41% of all child deaths before the age of five. That share grew from 37% over the last decade, and is likely to increase further. The first week of life is the riskiest week for newborns, and yet countries are only just starting postnatal care programmes to reach mothers and babies at this critical time.
Newborn deaths dropped from 4.6 million in 1990 to 3.3 million in 2009, but fell only slightly during the last decade. More investment into health care for women and children since 2000 when the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were set resulted in more rapid progress for the survival of mothers (2.3% per year) and under-five children (2.1% per year) than for newborns (1.7% per year).
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Source: Countdown to 2015 2010 Report