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Health director: 13 child deaths reviewed in 2024; commissioners receive local child fatality prevention report
Summary
Halifax County health director presented the 2024 Child Fatality Prevention Team annual report to commissioners, reporting 13 reviewed child deaths (including three homicides by firearm) and recommended continuing advocacy on prevention, recreation and mental‑health resources; the board voted to receive the report.
Halifax County Health Director Cheyenne James presented the county’s 2024 Child Fatality Prevention Team report and the Halifax County Board of Commissioners voted to receive the document.
James told the board the local child fatality team reviewed 13 child deaths in 2024. In the figures she presented, those cases included three homicides involving firearms, eight deaths connected to congenital or perinatal conditions, one poisoning and one malignant neoplasm of the brain. James said three cases were…
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