The First lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari has enjoined wives of
southwest governors to address issues of maternal and child mortality in their
states.This, she said, was
necessary to reduce the high rate of deaths among
women and children.She made the call in Abeokuta, at a three-day training
workshop for South West region.
The theme of the workshop was: “Advocacy for reproductive
maternal newborn child, adolescent and nutrition (RMNCAH-N).”She warned that
things would get worse, if issues of maternal mortality and child morbidity
remain unattended to.
The wife of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mrs.
Gimbiya Dogara, represented the First Lady.She explained that the event was in
fulfillment of her promise during the stakeholder’s meeting, held last October in
Abuja, to support the governor wives to facilitate the process of RMBCAH-N.
According to her: “We cannot leave out the uniqueness and
peculiarity of each population, that is why we have chosen to come down to the
zones, where we can find more common grounds to address maternal and child
mortality.”Applauding the renewed commitment of the governors’ wives to
champion RMNCAH-N in their states, she disclosed that southwest was the third
zone for the training.She said that the northwest and north central had been
covered towards the end of last year.
The wife of the Governor of Ogun State, Mrs. Olufunso Amosun
explained that the advocacy training was part of Mrs Buhari’s Future Assured
Initiative.Amosun stressed that no woman should die in the process of
childbirth, neither should any child die in the process of coming to life.
She enjoined all stakeholders to strive towards attaining the
realisation of the Sustainable Development Goal 3, to reduce the global
maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 percent.She commended the governors’
wives for their support and active participation in the reproductive maternal,
newborn child adolescent health and nutrition advocacy in their various states.
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