Nigeria: Reducing Maternal, Child Mortality in Nigeria

24 March 2016

With Nigeria losing an estimated 2,300 children under the age of five and 145 women of child bearing age every single day, and accounting for the second largest number of maternal and child deaths in the world, Martins Ifijeh writes on the recent efforts by stakeholders to reduce the deaths.

One of the most overwhelming misfortunes that have endured throughout history is the death of a woman during pregnancy and labour. This adversity is one that comes with so much disappointment and carries a huge burden of grief, pain and heartbreak. The menace of maternal deaths is one that is aggressively damaging to numerous households, terminating innocent lives and resulting in alarming unwarranted and preventable deaths.

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