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Local Cure For ChildBirth Deaths
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The safemotherhood-Abiye project initiated by the Ondo State
government to checkmate deaths recorded at childbirth in the state
has been identified by international study bodies as a promising
home grown effort to nip the trend in the bud and also build a
comprehensive, sustainable and evidence -driven approach that
ensures women have reliable access to quality maternal health
services.
The state Commissioner for Information, Kayode Akinmade while
speaking with newsmen in Akure yesterday said the revelation is a
verdict of international studies as contained in report before a
conference holding in the United states of America.
In her report for the a maternal health conference in Washington
DC due for Wednessday, Jenniffer Cooke of the Centre for
Strategic and International Studies ,Africa programme disclosed that
"In August 2012, CSIS Africa Program staff travelled to Nigeria to
conduct a series of interviews with government officials, implementing
agencies, and health professionals to better understand the country’
s national strategy on maternal health and the obstacles that are
slowing progress."
The aim too, she also mentioned was to get a sense of challenges
at the state and local government level, to determine where
responsibility lies for primary health care, and to identify instances
where real progress is being made.
In that vein, she reported, " the CSIS team visited Ondo State, in the
South West region of Nigeria, where the government’s “Abiye” (“Safe
Motherhood” in the Yoruba language) initiative has won early praise
from maternal and public health experts in Nigeria and beyond.
"The program is seen by many as a promising, “home-grown” effort
to build a comprehensive, sustainable, and evidence-driven
approach that ensures that women have reliable access to quality
maternal health services."
The Ondo approach she remarked is an example of how broad
principles of maternal health can be tailored to localized
circumstances and implemented in a concerted, organized way.
The Ondo State Abiye program she also remarked is a work in
progress, adding that the initiative’s leadership is cognizant of the
challenges associated with scale-up and sustainability over time.
" But the program does provide a positive preliminary model of how
data collection, technology and innovation, effient use of resources,
and mechanisms of accountability—backed by sustained political
will—can come together in a comprehensive strategy that, in its first
two years, is yielding significant results.
"The great and tragic irony of maternal mortality in Nigeria and
elsewhere in the developing world—is that the vast majority of
maternal deaths are avoidable through relatively uncomplicated
health interventions. But ensuring that women have access to, and
seek out, these basic health services has proved a complex and
daunting task" She submitted.
The barriers to access she offered ,are multiple, "ranging from a
woman’s immediate economic circumstances and cultural context, to
the weakness and limited reach of the country’s primary health
system, to the financing, capacity, and political will that governments
devote to the issue. Maternal health in Nigeria is a powerful
barometer of broader trends in development, in health and health
capacity, and ultimately in governance and investment on behalf of
society’s least powerful citizens."
Giving an insight into the level of success so far recorded by the
Ondo State initiative, Cooke said "The Abiye program has won
praise from Nigerian and international public health experts and is
gaining prominence within Nigeria as a promising “home-grown” effort
to improve maternal health outcomes.
"Then World Bank Vice President for Africa Oby Ezekwesili praised
the program as 'a role model and a benchmark for the African
continent in tackling infant and maternal mortality rate.Everybody
knows what you need to do to improve maternal health,” said one
observer in Abuja, “but the Ondo government is actually doing it'
Cooke in the report also said "much of the initiative’s success is
attributed to Governor Olusegun Mimiko, a medical doctor who twice
served as Ondo State Health Commissioner. Alarmed by the 2008
DHS findings, which showed Ondo State as the worst performer on
maternal health in the South West region, the governor made
bringing down the state’s maternal mortality rate a top priority.
"In office since 2009, he has invested considerable resources and
political capital in implementation of the Abiye model, underscored by
the weight he has given the program in his 2012 reelection
campaign. According to colleagues in the state health ministry and at
the flagship hospital in the state capital Akure, Governor Mimiko has
remained intimately involved in management and oversight of the
program and vested in its success" the report also mentioned in part.
government to checkmate deaths recorded at childbirth in the state
has been identified by international study bodies as a promising
home grown effort to nip the trend in the bud and also build a
comprehensive, sustainable and evidence -driven approach that
ensures women have reliable access to quality maternal health
services.
The state Commissioner for Information, Kayode Akinmade while
speaking with newsmen in Akure yesterday said the revelation is a
verdict of international studies as contained in report before a
conference holding in the United states of America.
In her report for the a maternal health conference in Washington
DC due for Wednessday, Jenniffer Cooke of the Centre for
Strategic and International Studies ,Africa programme disclosed that
"In August 2012, CSIS Africa Program staff travelled to Nigeria to
conduct a series of interviews with government officials, implementing
agencies, and health professionals to better understand the country’
s national strategy on maternal health and the obstacles that are
slowing progress."
The aim too, she also mentioned was to get a sense of challenges
at the state and local government level, to determine where
responsibility lies for primary health care, and to identify instances
where real progress is being made.
In that vein, she reported, " the CSIS team visited Ondo State, in the
South West region of Nigeria, where the government’s “Abiye” (“Safe
Motherhood” in the Yoruba language) initiative has won early praise
from maternal and public health experts in Nigeria and beyond.
"The program is seen by many as a promising, “home-grown” effort
to build a comprehensive, sustainable, and evidence-driven
approach that ensures that women have reliable access to quality
maternal health services."
The Ondo approach she remarked is an example of how broad
principles of maternal health can be tailored to localized
circumstances and implemented in a concerted, organized way.
The Ondo State Abiye program she also remarked is a work in
progress, adding that the initiative’s leadership is cognizant of the
challenges associated with scale-up and sustainability over time.
" But the program does provide a positive preliminary model of how
data collection, technology and innovation, effient use of resources,
and mechanisms of accountability—backed by sustained political
will—can come together in a comprehensive strategy that, in its first
two years, is yielding significant results.
"The great and tragic irony of maternal mortality in Nigeria and
elsewhere in the developing world—is that the vast majority of
maternal deaths are avoidable through relatively uncomplicated
health interventions. But ensuring that women have access to, and
seek out, these basic health services has proved a complex and
daunting task" She submitted.
The barriers to access she offered ,are multiple, "ranging from a
woman’s immediate economic circumstances and cultural context, to
the weakness and limited reach of the country’s primary health
system, to the financing, capacity, and political will that governments
devote to the issue. Maternal health in Nigeria is a powerful
barometer of broader trends in development, in health and health
capacity, and ultimately in governance and investment on behalf of
society’s least powerful citizens."
Giving an insight into the level of success so far recorded by the
Ondo State initiative, Cooke said "The Abiye program has won
praise from Nigerian and international public health experts and is
gaining prominence within Nigeria as a promising “home-grown” effort
to improve maternal health outcomes.
"Then World Bank Vice President for Africa Oby Ezekwesili praised
the program as 'a role model and a benchmark for the African
continent in tackling infant and maternal mortality rate.Everybody
knows what you need to do to improve maternal health,” said one
observer in Abuja, “but the Ondo government is actually doing it'
Cooke in the report also said "much of the initiative’s success is
attributed to Governor Olusegun Mimiko, a medical doctor who twice
served as Ondo State Health Commissioner. Alarmed by the 2008
DHS findings, which showed Ondo State as the worst performer on
maternal health in the South West region, the governor made
bringing down the state’s maternal mortality rate a top priority.
"In office since 2009, he has invested considerable resources and
political capital in implementation of the Abiye model, underscored by
the weight he has given the program in his 2012 reelection
campaign. According to colleagues in the state health ministry and at
the flagship hospital in the state capital Akure, Governor Mimiko has
remained intimately involved in management and oversight of the
program and vested in its success" the report also mentioned in part.
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