Former governor of Sokoto state, Aliyu Wamakko, has lost his daughter, Sadiya, who reportedly died during child-birth. Sadiya died at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, on Thursday. The 23-year-old died in event of complications arising from childbirth. She was buried on the same day in line with Islamic rites. READ ALSO: Our Membership […]
Family planning has been identified as cost effective strategy that could prevent the death of 358,000 women who die each year across the world from complications of pregnancy and childbirth if effectively used. A resident doctor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Lagos Island Maternity Hospital, Lagos, Dr. Olufunke Olamigoke, disclosed this during a media […]
…Says they were misled The Ondo state government has denied hiking childbirth fee at the State Specialist Hospital, Akure. Commissioner for Health, Dr. Wahaab Adegbenro said this in response to the protest staged on Thursday. Over 150 pregnant women disrupted operations at the hospital on Thursday, calling on Rotimi Akeredolu, the governor, to intervene. But […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said Thursday it has revised a benchmark used by health professionals worldwide in caring for women during childbirth, as it had caused a surge in caesarean sections that could be unnecessary. Since the 1950s, a woman progressing through labour at a rate slower than one centimetre of cervical dilation per […]
Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin, UN Under-Secretary-General and the Executive Director of UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has said that it is no longer acceptable for a woman to die during childbirth. Osotimehin told our reporters on the sidelines of an award dinner organized by the Nigeria Health Foundation in Newark, U.S. The UNFPA chief said people should […]