Breaking News | Group decries gross underfunding of maternal healthcare in Kano
By Bashir Bello, KANO Worried by cases of maternal mortality recorded in the country, the Executive Director, Resource Centre For Human Rights and Civic Education, CHRICED, Ibrahim Zikirullahi has on Monday decried what he described as gross underfunding of maternal healthcare in Kano State. This was as he said seventy per cent of maternal funds meant to address maternal, newborn and child healthcare were diverted and used to pay salaries and other running and operational costs. Zikirullahi stated this while unveiling findings of a three years baseline study carried out by the organization ta...