Anambra Records 15,000 Deliveries Without Mortality – Health Commissioner
By Chinwe Onuigbo, Awka
Anambra State Commissioner for Health, Dr Afam Obidike disclosed that the state has recorded about 15,000 deliveries without any maternal mortality since the introduction of free antenatal and delivery services by Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s administration.
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Dr. Obidike made this known during a Maternal Mortality Review meeting organized by the Ministry of Health in Awka, the state capital.
Speaking during the meeting which had in attendance medical chiefs from government, mission and private hospitals in the state, Dr. Obidike explained that the meeting was to review maternal mortality, identify potential causes and combating factors, develop strategies to reduce maternal mortality, review case presentations of all maternal deaths, discuss findings and discuss ways to enhance healthcare system and maternal health in Anambra.
The Health Commissioner further explained that Governor Soludo is passionate about the health needs of Ndi Anambra, hence his huge investment in the sector, adding that there is ongoing renovation of all the primary healthcare centres in the state.
He promised that the ministry will continue to monitor maternal homes in the state to ensure that they have all the necessary things needed for such vital homes to end maternal mortality in the state.
Earlier in her remarks, the Head of Reproductive Health in the ministry, Dr. Uju Okoye, who thanked the Commissioner for conceptualizing the review meeting, appreciated Governor Soludo for implementing almost all the recommendations they made in their inaugural review meeting and that they have added neonatal review in the meeting.
She listed free antenatal and delivery services, establishment of blood banks in the three senatorial zones in the state, distribution of anti-shock garments as some of their recommendations which has been implemented by the current administration in the state.
The Chairman of the Maternal Mortality Review meeting, Prof. George Eleje from Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi urged the participants to utilize the knowledge gannered in the training, as well as help to educate other health practitioners to eradicate maternal mortality in the state.
