Infant Health Benin is an important issue for the health care units in this west African land. There are a large variety of tropical diseases which are characteristic of the epidemiological profile of the country. In fact
Infant Health Benin is degrading day-by-day due to the endemic as well as the epidemic diseases which are affecting the children mostly under the age group of five years. Some of these endemic diseases are that of cholera, malaria and cerebrospinal meningitis.
Infant Health Benin statistics say that the infant mortality rate in the country is that of eighty nine deaths which occur per one thousand births in the land. The maternal mortality rate is also an area of major concern for Benin. Four hundred and ninety eight women die every year during one hundred thousand live births.
Another major reason for such a high Infant Health Benin is the low frequency of visits to the health care centers and the hospitals. The life expectancy during the time of birth is that of fifty two years.
SDC's Health program in Benin, which has come up with a lot of helpful suggestions for the Infant Health Benin includes the following:
- Decentralizing and restructuring the infant health in Benin,
- Improvement of the private health care section,
- Supply of low-cost medicines
- Strengthening the supervision of the health care centers
- Support of the development of an insurance system in the Infant Health Benin.
