A quarter of total deaths from pneumonia among children occur in India: survey

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Start: 2021-11-20T00:00:00-05:00
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17 Nov A quarter of total deaths from pneumonia among children occur in India: survey

Posted at 20:56h in News by WPD Staff

Pneumonia, which is the world’s leading infectious killer among children, claims the lives of nearly 1.6 million children under five every year, with more than 3,70,000 or nearly one-quarter of deaths occurring in India alone.