Kazakhstan's infant mortality decreased threefold, maternal death rates fivefold
17:49, 12 December 2014
ASTANA. KAZINFORM "For the past five years Kazakhstan's infant mortality has decreased threefold while maternal death rates dropped fivefold," Secretary of State Gulshara Abdykalikova told journalists prior to the meeting of the National Commission for Women Affairs and Family and Demographic Policy under the Kazakh President.
"In order to join the top most developed countries of the world, we should improve the death rates and bring them to minimum. Next year the Government will develop a new program and we will try to include our proposals in the program," she added.