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Punch Newspapers Sections Dayo Ojerinde A professor of paediatrics at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Chinyere Ezeaka, has said Nigeria loses more than 250,000 babies yearly to preventable and treatable causes. Ezeaka said this during the donation of neonatal equipment to LUTH by the Newborn Essential Solution and Technologies (NEST360°) to pilot referral health facilities in Nigeria. The expert who is also the Clinical Lead of the NEST 360° project said the Sustainable Development Goal of ending preventable newborn deaths by 2030 was achievable. “The cause of newborn deaths...

‘Nigeria loses 250,000 babies to preventable, treatable causes annually’ On By Chioma Obinna Despite the global efforts to end preventable newborn deaths by 2030, through the Sustainable Development Goal 3.2,  experts have raised the alarm that Nigeria loses over  250,000 babies yearly due to preventable and treatable causes, even as the country ranks second highest globally in infant deaths. According to a Professor of Paediatrics at the College of Medicine University of Lagos, and Clinical Lead, Newborn Essential Solution and Technologies, NEST360, Professor Chinyere Ezeaka, with cur...