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Gynaecologist laments high maternal deaths in Nigeria

By Michael Egbejule, Benin
04 February 2015   |   11:00 pm
A MEDICAL expert and professor of Obstetric and Gynecologist at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), Prof. Friday Okonofua, has expressed worry over the high level of maternal deaths in Nigeria.      Speaking at a two-day Implementation workshop, to assess the impact of an intervention to improve the quality of emergency obstetric care…

A MEDICAL expert and professor of Obstetric and Gynecologist at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), Prof. Friday Okonofua, has expressed worry over the high level of maternal deaths in Nigeria.

     Speaking at a two-day Implementation workshop, to assess the impact of an intervention to improve the quality of emergency obstetric care on maternal and perinatal outcome, Okonofua noted that the implementation workshop is aimed at evaluating the three leading causes of maternal and perinatal mortality.

     Okonofua who decried the current high rates of maternal, neonatal and perinatal mortality, which he puts at 25 per cent of haemorrhage, 33 per cent of abortion, 15 per cent of sepsis, 73 per cent of obstructed labour and eight per cent for other cases, said that Nigeria experienced about 40,000 maternal deaths in 2013.

      He said that the workshop captured, amongst others, the Formative Research Phase in four geographical zones in eight states having the studies in six secondary hospitals and two teaching hospitals with the research work to last from January-May 2015.

      According to him, the Intervention Research Phase would cover two geopolitical zones in four states having the studies in one tertiary and three secondary hospitals and the Evaluation Research Phase.

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