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Nigeria loses 250,000 babies to preventable, treatable causes annually — Expert 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, Prof Chinyere Ezeaka with current s...

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, Prof Chinyere Ezeaka with current slow progress, it may take Nigerian 100 years to meet the goal. Ezeaka Identifi...