Hope for a dramatic improvement in Nigeria’s healthcare delivery system this year appears to have been deemed by the 2016 budgetary allocation to the sector as presented recently to the national assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Lagos, Dec. 23, 2015 (NAN) Indigenes of the Kobena Sea Beach Village, Illashe in Lagos, have called for the establishment of a health facility in their community, to help to stem the incidences of maternal and child mortality.
Residents of Shishipe community, a settlement in Mpape, Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have appealed to government to provide health facilities and other basic amenities in their community.
Residents of Yimitu community in Kabusa Ward in the Abuja Municipal Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are still grappling with lack of health care centres where women could be delivered of their babies.
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris has said that a health care system that does not have a proper financing to complement will not work even as he disclosed that health financing, maternal and child health will top the lists of the Lagos State priorities in the next four years.
Forty-four days long gone since the needless death of Mrs Omowunmi Shonuga and her baby from child birth-related complication at Alimosho General Hospital. Since then up till now, 4,796 more women have also died from pregnancy or child birth-related issues in Nigeria, going by the recent National Demographic Health Survey statistics for maternal death (36,000 deaths per year).
UNICEF representative in Nigeria Ms. Jim Bolken told federal legislators last week that five women die hourly at childbirth in the country. This sad news only confirmed what has been an abiding part of health care in the country. At present, a woman’s chance of dying at childbirth is 1 in 13.
The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) 2014 report has stated that the maternal mortality rate in Nigeria is 560 deaths per 100,000 live births and one-third of all global maternal deaths are concentrated in two populous countries which includes Nigeria, after India.
Abuja — In a bid to assess Nigeria's performance in its services towards curbing the menace of maternal mortality and paving a way forward, it has been revealed that the country has not performed well as expected.
'NOTAGAIN' is a National Campaign slogan initiated by a number of Civil Society Organisations to create demand for government commitment and accountability to maternal health in Nigeria.
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