HEALTH Minister Sylva Masebo says the country has recorded 2,870 newborn deaths from January to September in 2023. Recently, Petauke Central Independent MP Emmanuel Jay Jay Banda raised a Matter of Urgent Public Importance in the National Assembly in which he said there was a rise in newborn deaths at Petauke District Hospital and that the Hospital was losing five new born babies per day. First Deputy Speaker Malungo Chisangano directed Masebo to issue a Ministerial Statement on the purported rise. In a Ministerial Statement, Thursday, Masebo said Eastern Province had recorded 278 new born deaths with Petauke District recording 26 thus far. “I wish from the onset to inform the House that the newborn deaths recorded this year in...
