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Nigeria: UNFPA Donates Health Materials to Sokoto
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Daily Trust (Abuja)
31 August 2007
Posted to the web 31 August 2007
Abdulfatai Abdulsalami
Sokoto
About two hundred safe motherhood kits for child delivery worth N3 million have been provided by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Sokoto for free distribution to various hospitals and maternity centres across the state.
This was disclosed by the state coordinator of UNFPA in Sokoto state Dr, Aliyu Yakub while speaking to Daily Trust in his office yesterday.
The coordinator explained that the said delivery kits contained surgical gloves, sanitary pads, packets of razor blade, powder, soap and all consumables that are required by women at the point of delivery.
Dr. Aliyu noted that UNFPA intervened in this area to enhance safe delivery by women and, more importantly, to encourage them to always deliver their babies at the hospital and various maternity centres across the state.
He further disclosed that research conducted by the UNFPA in the state indicated that women preferred to deliver at home because of the non availability of these delivery kits. He said this to a large extent contributed tremendously increased maternal mortality in the state.
Dr. Aliyu pointed out that the facilities were given for free and they are to be distributed freely to UNFPA supported facilities across the state, which, he said, were about 100.
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He urged the benefiting hospitals and maternity centres to ensure that the materials were distributed to women on delivery for free, stating that it was another strategy by the UNFPA to tackle the high rate of maternal mortality in the area.
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