‘Maternal death still high in Kaduna’

Speaking at the 2014 Safe Motherhood Day, Dogo mentioned that the leading cause of death during pregnancy and childbirth include bleeding after childbirth and high blood pressure during pregnancy.“Our women are dying from these complications which are treatable and preventable because they don’t have access to good emergency obstetric care. We must stop the ‘business […]

Speaking at the 2014 Safe Motherhood Day, Dogo mentioned that the leading cause of death during pregnancy and childbirth include bleeding after childbirth and high blood pressure during pregnancy.
“Our women are dying from these complications which are treatable and preventable because they don’t have access to good emergency obstetric care. We must stop the ‘business as usual’ attitude and double our efforts to ensure that care reaches those rural and illiterate women who are most vulnerable.
“In spite of government and development partner’s commitment and actions towards reducing maternal and newborn deaths and attaining the Millennium Development Goal 5, the available proven cost effective interventions which are life saving are not reaching the women that need them. The poor, illiterate, rural women still have no access to emergency obstetric care,” he lamented.
According to him, the rate of new born deaths is also very high in the state, noting that 75% die during the first week of life and one in five under five children never live to see their fifth birthday.
To ensure universal health coverage for improved maternal and newborn, he said life saving interventions must reach every woman and newborn irrespective of where they live.