Pakistan has highest rate of newborn mortality - Unicef study

The UN children's agency has singled out Pakistan as the riskiest country for newborns, saying that for every 1,000 infants, 46 die at birth.

Dr Ghazna Khalid, a leading obstetrician in Pakistan's north-western Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province, described the situation outlined in the Unicef report as "abysmal", adding: "We don't need front-line medical doctors. We have plenty of them. We need skilled midwives."