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262,000 babies die yearly as poor women shun hospitals for traditional birth centres.
ENIOLA AKINKUOTU, who visited several traditional birth centres, narrates the conditions in which a majority of pregnant women in rural communities give birth
One-month old Patience Okon may never remember the events of November 14, 2020 because she is too little to understand what happened. However, the scars on her face, hands, legs and other parts of her body will serve as a reminder of the suffering she faced on the day she was born.
Her unemployed mother had fallen into labour on the fateful day while her father, Daniel, who is a mechanic’s apprentice, took her to a traditional birth centre in Calabar, the Cross River State capital.
Blog - Kaduna state has gotten a waiver to procure Family Planning (FP) commodities as their demands for FP commodities increases. This makes Kaduna the first and only state with permission to directly procure family planning commodities in Nigeria.
Continued from yesterday’s back page
Bangladesh came second to the last out of the five worst places to be born on Earth just as the reporter says that the country of Bangladesh is a republic located in South Asia and is the fourth worst place to be born in modern times. x
Malnutrition, among other health issues, has long plagued Bangladesh.
In fact, the World Bank has ranked Bangladesh as the number one area in the world for children to suffer from malnutrition. Vast majorities of the population are undernourished, underweight, anemic, and growth stunted. Angola came fifth and the writers of the report said that the Republic of Angola is a southern African territory and is known as the fifth-worst place to be born. Angola has suffered extensive periods of economic hardships due to nearly twenty-seven years of civil war. Due to long periods of constant battle, Angola has also proved to be quite dangerous for its natives. The life expectancy