A total of 194 perinatal deaths, including 105 stillbirths, were registered between 2000 and last year, Health Minister Louis Deguara said. Replying to a parliamentary question by Labour MP Silvio Parnis, the minister said in this period there were also 147 infant deaths - babies who died before reaching their first birthday, including 118 neonatal deaths - those dying before the age of one month.

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