Malaysia sets the example with lowest regional child mortality rate

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia can show the rest of the region that it is possible to achieve low maternal and child mortality rates even as a developing nation, said Gaye Phillips, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) representative to Malaysia.  

She said Unicef was launching a new booklet entitled Progress of the Nations with the Health Ministry tomorrow in celebration of the country’s “amazing success” in reducing the number of deaths of children under five and also for its low maternal mortality rate.