Chief Executive Officer, Omotayo Maternity Home, Ibadan, Olapeju Agunbiade, has said that no pregnant woman deserves to die while giving life stating that everyone should rise to the occasion of saving the lives of pregnant women.
Agunbiade who is also the CEO of Omotayo Charity Foundation noted the increasing rate of child and maternal mortality in Nigeria prompted the establishment of the Foundation under which pregnant women enjoy free antenatal care and delivery for free.
She hinted that since its establishment, over 200 pregnant women have been offered free antenatal and delivery.
According to her: “Every day, 830 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth around the world.
“A majority of these maternal deaths have been attributed to severe bleeding, infection, hypertension during pregnancy and unsafe abortions.
“Unfortunately, due to the fragmentation of child-bearing services across Nigeria, it is almost impossible to track and record factual practices and experiences in maternal mortality in Nigeria.
“Many of these maternal deaths occur outside health facilities and are never recorded; health workers especially in rural areas do not always know the causes of death and calculating the numbers seem complex. The factors driving this are sometimes outside the immediate control of the health sector.”
She further noted that: “Poverty fuels maternal mortality, which explains why death rates are higher in low-income countries like Nigeria than high-income countries. This possibly explains why 19per cent of the 358,000 annual global maternal deaths occur in Nigeria.
“Behind these numbers are real people like the late Uche (name changed to maintain anonymity), an energetic young lady in her late thirties. She owned a hairdressing salon in one of the south-eastern states. Beyond the story that she went to a church rather than a standard health facility to deliver her baby, nobody knows the actual reason why she died.
“Despite advocacy efforts and implementation of programs geared towards reducing preventable maternal mortality, Nigeria’s most vulnerable women and children have continuously faced barriers to accessing quality health care at the right time.”
Agunbiade concluded that: “No woman should die giving life. The risks of having a baby in Nigeria remain unacceptably high. We must make a concerted effort to make childbirth a moment of joy.”
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