For example, the neonatal mortality rate— that's the number of newborns who die before their first month birthday— was 10 times higher than that of the UK.
When the crucial time came, the thing failed in a perfectly inexplicable way; it was as if some unseen influence had been working secretly against him.
The rate is now at 68 per 1,000, this means that hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian children who might have died in earlier years now reach their fifth birthday.