More reasons have emerged why Nigeria loses 2,300 under-five children and 145 women of child-bearing age daily.A report on maternal and child health released yesterday in Abuja by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency listed some of the causative factors to include inadequate health facilities, as the nation currently owns 30,000 of such which are not fully functional.
Other key findings of the report on the Agency’s Strategic Approach to Rapidly Reduce Such Mortality at the Primary Health Care and Community Levels presented by the Executive Director of NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, at a stakeholders meeting are: “Nigeria has maternal mortality rate of 560/100,000 live births, which means 33,000 women die each year and one in nine maternal deaths worldwide is a Nigerian.
“One in every eight Nigerian children dies before their fifth birthday.“Nearly 10 per cent of-new born deaths occur in Nigeria.”To address the menace, the NPHCDA boss said rapid and sustainable improvements in Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health in Nigeria were critical to restoring confidence in the health system and improving the overall health outcomes of the country.
NphcdaNG is a lie, you always give inaccurate data. Telling us the figure without telling us the reasons for the deaths (causes) and your source of data. In Nigeria that medical records are poorly kept
2,300 babies.Not true. Infant mortality rate has drastically reduced.
Why would these agencies always lie. How many we be for Nigeria sef?
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