Nigeria: NPC Commissioner Laments High Maternal Mortality Rate
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Daily Champion (Lagos)
11 July 2008
Posted to the web 11 July 2008
Victor Ogunje
Ado-Ekiti
FEDERAL Commissioner of National Population Commission (NPC), Dr. Bode Iwaloye has described the present mortality ratio as too frightening, noting that about 800 maternal deaths are recorded per 100,000 live births in the country.
The NPC boss said the high mortality rate was as a result of poor maternal health, calling on all tiers of government to expedite action to improve the health care delivery in the country.
Iwaloye, the Ekiti State Federal Commissioner in the NPC made the observation on Tuesday in Ado-Ekiti at a briefing, marking the commencement of the seven-day programme targetted at sensitising stakeholders on this year's world population day.
"The poor maternal health status in developing countries is indicated by the high number of women who die during child birth. More than half a million die each year of pregnancy related cause with 99 per cent of them in developing countries.
"This is the time to act and take the necessary steps while the need for safe motherhood, child spacing cannot be over-emphasised," he said.
The commissioner who regretted the use of modern contraceptives to prevent pregnancy and voluntary family planning as remedy to the incidence of maternal mortality had called on the women that are susceptible to the scourge to take precaution during pregnancy.
"unplanned and unwanted pregnancies are the major challenges for our young women everyday, however, these could have been easily prevented if only they had access to contraceptives. "Besides, a good family planning system in Nigeria cannot be over emphasised because it has a far-reaching effect on the socio-economic development of our country.
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