BECOMING PREGNANT; A SUICIDE MISSION !!! On the 8th of April, the news site allAfrica ran an article entitled, Nigerian Women Dying to Give Birth that discussed the high rate of maternal deaths in the country. It began with the story of Nkechi, a 9-month pregnant woman in Nigeria who as a result of successive delays in accessing adequate healthcare after going into labour lost her baby and bled to death. Those delays included enduring a 3 hour, 25 kilometres journey to reach the nearest hospital, after which she waited almost 6 hours before being seen by a doctor due to staff shortages, and then was refused admission due to insufficient beds. The writer of the piece commented, getting pregnant in Nigeria is almost a suicide mission! A 2012 World Health Organisation publication, Trends in Maternal Mortality put the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) in Nigeria at 630 per 100,000 live births. The country ranks second highest in the world in maternal deaths and yet this problem is yet to be addressed as an important public health concern by Nigerias government. Do we really have a Government in this country? I think we do; yes we do because weve got a group of people who govern by force, through force and with force. They simply pampers the greedy, ignores the needy and secures nobody. We ask Allaah subhanahu wataala to ease our affairs! Aameen. Allaahul Mustaaan
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:14:05 +0000
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