Kano govt restates commitment to reduce maternal deaths

The Kano state government have pledged its commitment to reduce maternal deaths in the state.

The National Coordinator, Maternal and Neonatal Mortality Reduction Innovation Initiative (MAMII), Dr Dayo Adeyanjuhas disclosed this, saying he has presented a co-creation intervention report document to the Kano state government for immediate implementation.

It will be recalled that the Kano state Commissioner of Health, Dr Labaran Yusuf when speaking at the occasion, stated that only 30 per cent of  pregnant women gave birth at a government hospital, which made the state have the highest figure of maternal deaths

It will be recalled that the report is the outcome of a five-day workshop held in Kano to design a context-specific intervention suite for Kano State MAMII.

MAMII is an initiative launched by the Bola Tinubu administration to “crash” or eliminate maternal deaths nationwide.

The workshop enables Kano State, which tops the chart of maternal deaths in the country, to dive deeply into the key factors.

Adeyanju added that the report presented focuses on various thematic areas, identifying actions needed at the community level to create financial or physical access to facilities and eradicate maternal mortality.

He, therefore, stated that implementing the report’s recommendations and integrating them into the annual operational plan will mobilise resources for timely intervention.

According to him, “This (maternal mortality) has to stop now. Nigerian women die every minute and this is what the President and the Minister of Health do not want to see happening.”

Adeyanju commended the Kano State government for adopting the document, describing it as a major catalyst to crashing maternal mortality.

He also disclosed that “They(Kano officials) have pledged in the presence of all the development partners that they are going to crash maternal deaths to ensure that never in Kano State will pregnancy be a death sentence.”

While the SWAP national coordinator, Dr Ashiru Adamu Abubakar, explained that to understand the major issues about the maternal deaths, the team received all available evidence and visited ten communities in Kano.

The Federal Government team also brought experts from Bangladesh and the United States as well as different organisations from across the country to put heads together with the Kano team, Abubakar said.

Speaking at the occasion, the permanent secretary, Ministry of Health, Aminu Bashir, received the document, pledging that the Kano State government will implement the recommendations.

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