Khadijah Aliyu
The national coordinator of the Maternal and Neonatal Mortality Reduction Innovation Initiative (MAMII), Dr. Dayo Adeyanju, has presented a co-creation intervention report document to the Kano state government.
The report is the outcome of a five-day workshop aimed at designing a context-specific intervention suite for Kano state MAMII.
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According to the coordinator, the report focuses on various thematic areas, identifying actions needed at the community level to create financial or physical access to facilities and eradicate maternal mortality.
Dr. Adeyanju emphasized that implementing the report’s recommendations and integrating them into the annual operational plan will mobilize resources for timely intervention.
“This has to stop now as women die every minute and this is not what the president and minister does not want to be happening “
He commended the Kano state government for adopting the document describing it as a major catalyst to crashing maternal mortality.
“They have pledged in the presence of everybody and the commitment of all the development partners to say we are going to crash maternal death to ensure that never in Kano state will pregnancy be a death sentence”
The SWAP national coordinator, Dr Ashiru Adamu Abubakar, explained that to understand the major issues, the team received all available evidence, visited ten communities in Kano and brought experts from Bangladesh and the United States.
“As well as different organizations across the country to put heads together with the Kano team”
“After five days we have presented the Kano state a holistic document that defines what are the problems in Kano and innovative solutions to put into place to save the lives of women and children “
Receiving the document, Kano State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Abubakar Labaran Yusuf, represented by the permanent secretary Pharmacist Aminu Bashir, pledged to implement the report’s recommendations.
“The workshop has enabled Kano state to dive deep into the root cause of the problem of high maternal mortality”
He maintained that, the ministry of health will collaborate with other ministries to upgrade access roads, recognizing that access is crucial to mitigating maternal mortality.
Paradigm News reports that development partners such as UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank, WHO among others pledged their commitments to the fight against maternal mortality.