Kosovo has highest infant and maternal mortality rate in Europe
Kosovo is a region with the highest infant and maternal mortality rate in Europe and with the highest incidence of contagious disease, a monitoring team of the Millenium Development Goals warned.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Monday, July 07, 2008
According to these data, 45 of 1,000 newborn infants die, and two mothers out of every 100,000 on giving birth.
UN Development Team Coordinator Frode Mauring said that 52 out of every 100,000 persons in Kosovo are suffering with tuberculosis.
"Cooperation should be stepped up with other countries in order to make it easier for civil society to be engaged on development issues, so that Kosovo could catch up with the regional trends of development", Mauring said.
Meanwhile, UNICEF reported that juvenile delinquency is on the rise in Kosovo, and in the period from 2005 to 2007 the number of under age people charged with offenses was doubled.
According to the reports of the police, which UNICEF is referring to, in the period from 2005-2006, the number of children suspected of offenses was 2,369, while in the period from 2006 to 2007, that number increased to 4,300.
