UNICEF says Pakistan is riskiest country for newborns

ISLAMABAD -- The UN children's agency in a report released Tuesday singled out Pakistan as the riskiest country for newborns, saying that out of every 1,000 children born in Pakistan, 46 die at birth. "It's abysmal," said Dr. Ghazna Khalid, a leading obstetrician in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pukhtunkhwa Province. "We don't need front-line medical doctors. We have plenty of them. We need skilled midwives." The report, with its dismal figures that show South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa as the