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Saturday, 3 September 2016

Kaduna State Signs MOU To Curb Maternal Mortality


Guests after signing the Mou

The Kaduna State Government, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and DFID has just signed an MOU on Strenghtening Primary Healthcare System in Kaduna State.
Speaking at the occasion, the Governor of Kaduna state Mallam Nasir El-Rufai said that The purpose of this MOU is to support Kaduna State's effort to strengthen Primary Health Care systems, improve service delivery, and reduce financial barriers to access for pregnant women and children with the objective of increasing and sustaining effective and equitable coverage of essential health services, acceleration and reductions in maternal and child mortality.
                            Gov El-Rufai signing the Mou

It could be recalled that the Kaduna State team leader of Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI), sometimes in May 2016 said that For every single day, Kaduna State looses about five pregnant women to maternal mortality, and about 150 women in a month to maternal mortality.

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