Home Treatment Of Pneumonia Better Than Hospital Care, Groundbreaking Study Reveals

In a breakthrough study published online in The Lancet, researchers from Boston University, Save the Children and the WHO found that young children treated at home for severe pneumonia by Pakistan's network of "lady health workers" were more likely to get well than children referred to health facilities. The finding could save thousands of children's lives every year. Pneumonia is the leading cause of death of young children around the world, killing some 1.4 million children under age 5 annually, 99 per cent of them in developing countries...

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