Lagos: Using food to encourage prenatal visits
Anyone who has ever been hungry would know that food is a huge incentive. I don’t mean the sort of hunger whereby you know how or when the next meal would come and are just a bit peckish. I’m referring to when one does not have a clue to where or how the next meal is going to come.
“This MICH, in the short-term, will reduce the incidence of abysmally low attendance of expectant mothers at the state government’s primary and secondary health facilities for their prenatal clinics occasioned by the economic hardship in the society,” said Dr. Sanwo-Olu, who was represented by Mrs Funmi Omotosho.
The Special Adviser to Governor Sanwo-Olu on Civic Engagement, Princess Aderemi Adebowale, said that the MICH programme “is a component of the ‘Womb to School’ initiative which is a basket of social services initiated by the Office of Civic Engagement with the aim of supporting development of socially responsible citizens from the womb through infancy, childhood, youth into adulthood.”
“In 2015, Nigeria’s estimated maternal mortality ratio was over 800 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, with approximately 58,000 maternal deaths during that year. By comparison, the total number of maternal deaths in 2015 in the 46 most developed countries was 1700, resulting in a maternal mortality ratio of 12 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.
“A society that did not recognise the vulnerability of a pregnant woman and does not embrace any ameliorative process is guilty of some form of violence against women,” Mimiko, who is a medical practitioner, said. He also revealed that a 2012 confidential enquiry into maternal deaths in Ondo State report showed that over 90 per cent of maternal deaths were linked to mismanagement or delayed referrals by unskilled faith-based or traditional birth attendants.
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