Infant and maternal mortality soars in Cameroon

80.000 infants and 6.000 women die yearly By Moma Sandrine Statistics revealed during a meeting that held recently at the Bamenda regional hospital have shown that about 80.000 children below the age of five die yearly in Cameroon while an estimated 6.000 women die during child birth. Further details showed that Adamawa, East, Far North and the Northern regions of the the country are the most worrisome regions as far as infant and maternal mortality is concerned. The census that was carried out in 2014 revealed that 22.000babies die every year before the age of 1month a figure that the…