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Thu 08 Aug 2008Fuel poverty in Ireland 'shocking', says WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has described as "shocking" the fact that 17 per cent of households experience fuel poverty in a country as affluent as Ireland.
In a report on social inequalities, the WHO also found that while one woman in 47,600 died during childbirth in Ireland, the figure rose to one in eight in Afghanistan.
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