Careful checks revealed that the husbands of some of these women are arrested by security operatives after dropping their wives at the hospitals. Lockdown Portharcourt COVID19 Coronavirus
Given the present challenges and government responses to prevent the spread of the deadly virus, especially the lockdown measures, some pregnant women in Rivers State seemed to have resorted in patronizing Traditional Birth Attendants at the moment.
Careful checks revealed that the husbands of some of these women are arrested by security operatives after dropping their wives at the hospitals. Also, commercial taxi drivers have severally fallen to similar traps, thus compelling them to snub calls by pregnant women to convey them to hospitals due to uncertainty about their return.
Seemingly, the Millennium Development Goal 5 set by the United Nations is to improve maternal health by reducing the Maternal Mortality Rate by three-fourths by 2015 and due to the high maternal mortality rates occurring in the country, Nigeria was identified as one of the countries that needed to achieve the MDG 5.
“ My husband has a car and he is in the house but he could not drive me to the hospital because last week when he drove me to the hospital he was arrested by the State COVID:19 task force on his way back home and was taken to the isolation center, so because of fear, he declined taking me to the hospital again”
Another pregnant lady who lives with her mother in Diobu axis but registered at Ogbunabali, Mrs Stella Dombari, said, “ It is very stressful, I am staying with my mother at Diobu while I registered at Ogbunabani, a journey of about two hours if there is labour now, I don’t even know what to do, that is why I have started going to a local birth attendant at Nanka street in Diobu ”
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