{"id":10273,"date":"2022-10-06T14:57:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T14:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/baby-mortality-rate-quadruples-in-ethiopias-tigray-region"},"modified":"2022-10-06T15:21:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T15:21:28","slug":"baby-mortality-rate-quadruples-in-ethiopias-tigray-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/baby-mortality-rate-quadruples-in-ethiopias-tigray-region","title":{"rendered":"Baby mortality rate quadruples in Ethiopia&#8217;s Tigray region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>In <b>Ethiopia<\/b>&#8216;s embattled <b>Tigray<\/b> region, the <b>death rate<\/b> of babies dying in their first month of life is <b>four times<\/b> the rate before the war, according to a recent study.<\/p>\n<p>The most common causes were prematurity, infections and perinatal asphyxia, or the inability to establish breathing at birth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, we can say that the under-five mortality during war time doubled compared to the pre-war era. In unit mortality, means the death of a child in units in the first 28 days of life, also quadrupled as compared to the pre-war era from around 10 (deaths, ed.), according to studies in Tigray in 2020, to around 36 (deaths, ed.)&#8221;, said Dr. Bereket Berhe, Pediatrician at Ayder Referral Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Almost two years have passed since the war started and Ethiopia&#8217;s government isolated the Tigray region from the rest of the world, severing basic services such as electricity, phone, internet and banking.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides have been invited to <b>African Union<\/b>-mediated peace talks this weekend in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\">Eritrea<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. In Ethiopia&#8216;s embattled Tigray region, the death rate of babies dying in their first month of life is four times the rate before the war, according to a recent study. The most common causes were prematurity, infections and perinatal asphyxia, or the inability to establish breathing at birth. &#8220;So, we can say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":10272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,16],"tags":[242,243,361,233,362,319],"class_list":["post-10273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-eritrea","tag-armed-conflicts","tag-eritrea","tag-protests-in-ethiopia","tag-tigray-region"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Baby mortality rate quadruples in Ethiopia&#039;s Tigray region - Eritrea<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In Ethiopia&#039;s embattled Tigray region, the death rate of babies dying in their first month of life ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/baby-mortality-rate-quadruples-in-ethiopias-tigray-region\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Baby mortality rate quadruples in Ethiopia&#039;s Tigray region\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In Ethiopia&#039;s embattled Tigray region, the death rate of babies dying in their first month of life ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/baby-mortality-rate-quadruples-in-ethiopias-tigray-region\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Eritrea\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-06T14:57:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-06T15:21:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_6-633ef254d430e.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"538\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/baby-mortality-rate-quadruples-in-ethiopias-tigray-region#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/baby-mortality-rate-quadruples-in-ethiopias-tigray-region\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Baby mortality rate quadruples in Ethiopia&#8217;s Tigray region\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-06T14:57:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-06T15:21:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/baby-mortality-rate-quadruples-in-ethiopias-tigray-region\"},\"wordCount\":183,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/baby-mortality-rate-quadruples-in-ethiopias-tigray-region#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_6-633ef254d430e.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Eritrea\",\"Armed conflicts\",\"Eritrea\",\"Protests in Ethiopia\",\"Tigray Region\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/baby-mortality-rate-quadruples-in-ethiopias-tigray-region#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/baby-mortality-rate-quadruples-in-ethiopias-tigray-region\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/baby-mortality-rate-quadruples-in-ethiopias-tigray-region\",\"name\":\"Baby mortality rate quadruples in Ethiopia's Tigray region - 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