By NAN

The Kogi Government says it will establish special healthcare centres to be called “Health Care Plus’’, designed for pregnant women and new born babies across the state.

The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Saka Harunah, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja on Wednesday.

Harunah said the scheme would be a project with multiple components to cater for the pregnant women and their new born babies from the day of delivery up to 28 days of life.

Lack of proper adoption of family planning methods among Nigerians leads to 610,000 abortions annually in Nigeria says jhpiego.

Addressing pressmen in Abuja on October 20, 2016, Emmanuel Otolorin, the country director of Jhpiego, an international non-profit health organization affiliated to Johns Hopkins University stated that 36 million abortions occur worldwide annually. And Nigeria accounts for 610,000 of the act.

By Franka Osakwe

Igbologun is one of the riverine communities in Amowo-Odofin Local Government Area, Lagos, where pregnant women and children pay stiff price to stay alive, although maternal services are free in Lagos State.

This island community also known as Snake Island, with over twenty thousand people, largely child bearing women and children, has only one poorly functioning Primary Health Centre (PHC), which is not patronized for maternal services.