Kenya among countries with highest child mortality rates

Some of the 10 ambulances launched for emergency services in Marsabit County. Emergency rescue has been applauded for improved healthcare in many counties. [PHOTOS/JOSEPHMUCHIRI/STANDARD]

This year marks the deadline in which all countries should have met all the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) that the world committed to in 2000. Of the eight goals, Kenya has underachieved in Number Four, reducing child mortality, and Number Five, improving maternal health.

The National Coordinating Agency for Population and Development shows that one in 300 Kenyan women die while giving birth. The country had a target of reducing maternal deaths to 100 in 100,000 births but this has not been achieved.