Dhaka, April 26 -- At least 59 per cent child marriages take place before passing their adolescence in Bangladesh and thereby breeds multifarious health burden like maternal and child mortality.
As a result, 43 per cent of them face immature death due to complicated pregnancy.
Director General of Family Planning Kazi Mustafa Sarwar said this while addressing a meeting at Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society of Bangladesh auditorium in the capital's Mirpur on Thursday.
Dhaka Family Planning Division organised the programme.
Family Planning Division Director for Dhaka, Braza Gopal Bhowmick, presided over the meeting, while Maternal and Child Health Programme Manager Joynal Haque, among others, spoke there.
Currently, Bangladesh has 3.6...