KENYA: Child deaths on the rise

NAIROBI Wednesday, October 29, 2008 (IRIN) - The number of children dying before their fifth birthday in Kenya has risen in the past 10 years, according to health specialists.One in nine children dies before the age of five. "For every 1,000 children born, 121 die, compared with 97 in 1990," Shahnaz Sharif, the senior deputy director of medical services in Kenya's health ministry, told IRIN. "A shortage of skilled health workers and a lack of access to referral facilities are partly to blame...