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You are watching A Healthy Start Season 1 Episode 5

Children are most likely to die in their first month of life. Bangladesh has one of the highest child mortality figures in the world. Fifty children a day die drowning. Fifty thousand a year are killed by diarrhoea. Yet a range of cheap and simple interventions could save many of these precious lives. 

• On site 08 November 2008
• Air date 08 November 2008
• Produced for BBC World

TV Series — Survival

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Keywords

• Survival,
• Maternal and child health,
• Bangladesh,
• Dhaka,
• MCH,
• traditional birthing practice