Niagara Falls, CN Tower to be lit purple for World Prematurity Day
Posted November 17, 2013 12:51 pm.
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Niagara Falls and the CN Tower will be bathed in purple light on Sunday evening in a global effort to raise awareness of preterm birth.
Sunday is World Prematurity Day and hospitals, parliament houses, bridges and skyscrapers, including the Empire State Building, are taking part.
SickKids, Mount Sinai and Sunnybrook hospitals have planned a sundown vigil at the CN Tower.
Other GTA events are also happening in Mississauga and at McMaster University in Hamilton.
More than 1 million babies worldwide die every year because of complications from preterm birth.
Prematurity — babies born before 37 weeks in the womb — is the leading cause of death in newborns and the second most common cause of death in children younger than five years old.
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