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. ā€œI wish from the onset to inform the House that the newborn deaths recorded this year in...

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