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Benin – Health Care statistics say that in the year 1999, for every one thousand people, there were 0.2 hospital beds and 0.1 physician in this west African land. Some of the most serious epidemic diseases are now under control due to the efforts of the Benin – Health Care program. The mobile Benin – Health Care units, along with other such facilities, have even eradicated the deadly disease of Yaws, from the northern regions of the country.
Another dangerous disease is that of sleeping sickness or the Trypanosomiasis has been reduced to a great degree. Meningitis, another deadly disease which affected the inhabitants of the northern parts of the country, as well as the yellow fever, have been reduced to a large extent due to the initiatives taken by the Benin – Health Care officials.
Malnutrition was one of the epidemic diseases in the country until 1999, specifically in the children belonging to the age group of five years. Access to safe drinking water has been provided by the official of Health Care in Benin. In the year 1998, the maternal mortality rate was 500 for every one hundred thousand lives. Benin – Health Care facts also convey that the infant mortality rate was ninety eight for every one thousand births, in 1999.
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