By Verah Okeyo
In 2016, the Unicef reported that there were more than 34,000 deaths due to acute respiratory infections, mostly pneumonia, 14 per cent of all the deaths of children under five.
A 2017 study by UK based organization Save the Children, pneumonia kills two children under five every minute, an equivalent of one million a year worldwide. Majority of these deaths are in sub-Sahara Africa.
While the numbers have reduced, the disease remains Kenya’s number one child killer, and health experts have many reasons…Read more>>
