How pregnancy complications causing women's death —UNICEF


THE United Nations Children's Fund,UNICEF, has disclosed that no fewer than 82,000 Nigerian women die yearly from pregnancy-related complications.

The organisation said 225 women dies everyday from maternal mortality, seeking urgent action by authorities to halt the ugly development.

UNICEF Chief of Health in Nigeria, Eduardo Celades, disclosed these in Lagos  at a Media Dialogue on COVID19 and Routine Immunization, hosted by UNICEF Nigeria.

The new death rate arising from pregnancy-related complications doubled the figure released by the Federal Ministry of Health in March, 2022.

Speaking at the media dialogue, UNICEF Chief of Health, Eduardo Celades, said " In the last few months and weeks,we got new data. The report is telling us that still, the number of women dying from pregnancy related causes is very high. About 82,000 are estimated to die every year from maternal mortality.

"What we doing is to strengthen primary health care in the country. We hope that the data would help us in our response and the response with the government in Nigeria.

"The other one is the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, MICS,an analysis where there are the main issue and how we can face them.

"And the other new data is the global maternal mortality trends, 2000 to 2020. This is a new report that was launched a couple of weeks ago and we wanted to share that with you because we think this could influence how we work and to define how we work with government so that we can  all align and we can have a common narrative .

"We think that this is the new way of working. We are learning and we are trying to innovate. Nigeria is one of the most complex countries in the world in terms of the public health issues that it is facing.

"It is the second country in the world with more zero dose children--the ones that have not had any single vaccine. It is the country in the world with high maternal mortality. 

"Last year was the biggest outbreak in the world and Nigeria has extreme weak health system. So, we are trying to think from different angles because we at UNICEF and the UN cannot move alone. To do that, we need the government to work with journalists and social media influencers to make the change that is needed.

"Maternal mortality is not going down. Maternal mortality is the same. We have seen that it has reduced about 12% in the last 20 years but it is not enough if we want to achieve the target."

Culled from Vanguard

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