Both child and maternal mortality rates have been significantly reduced in Oman. Dr. Fatma Al Hinai, Director of Women and Child Health at the Ministry of Health, attributed birth spacing and a number of other factors, such as improvement in trained medical staff, for this decline.

Times of Oman, July 10, 2017.

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