Experts in the health sector have called for a multi-stakeholder participation to address maternal and child healthcare to ensure the survival of both at point of delivery.
The experts made the call at a panel discussion with the theme: “Multi-stakeholder commitment to maternal and child healthcare and its effects on the Ecosystem’’ at the inauguration of the Yellow Heart Initiative by the MTN Foundation on Thursday in Abuja.
According to the panellists, government alone cannot tackle the various issues that have to do with the principal factors of health affordability, accessibility, availability and awareness that concern child and maternal health.
Dr Kayode Afolabi, the Director, Reproductory Health, Federal Ministry of Health, said that government needed the collaborative effort of all stakeholders to ensure that the death of mothers and children were reduced.
He said that the ministry would work better if all hands were on deck to ensure that accurate data of the people were made available even from the local government levels so adequate provision of healthcare facilities could be provided.
He therefore commended the MTN Foundation for the initiative and called on other private organisations and well meaning Nigerians to also join hands with the government.
Dr Abimbola Williams, the Chief Executive of Save the Child Nigeria, an NGO said it was imperative to take into consideration the qualitative care given to a newborn at the point of birth.
She said that mortality usually occurred mostly within the first week of birth, saying that about 90, 000 babies were usually lost in a year.
Williams said that most mothers were ignorant of what to do at the birth of their child and had little or no knowledge about family planning.
She called for greater collaboration and creation of awareness, especially among the rural populace as well as training and retraining of primary care givers in health centres across the country.
Mrs Lilian Amodu, the Chief Executive of Sickle Cell Foundation said that there was the need to educate all traditional and religious leaders to enable them in turn educate their followers on the need to use health facilities provided for them.
NAN reports that the Yellow Heart Initiative is a multi-stakeholder approach supported by the Federal Ministry of Health.
The initiative is aimed at delivering a sustainable intervention that drastically reduces the prevalence of deaths by providing access to quality healthcare for less privileged women and child in the society.
- P.M. News Nigeria
According to the panellists, government alone cannot tackle the various issues that have to do with the principal factors of health affordability, accessibility, availability and awareness that concern child and maternal health.
Dr Kayode Afolabi, the Director, Reproductory Health, Federal Ministry of Health, said that government needed the collaborative effort of all stakeholders to ensure that the death of mothers and children were reduced.
He said that the ministry would work better if all hands were on deck to ensure that accurate data of the people were made available even from the local government levels so adequate provision of healthcare facilities could be provided.
He therefore commended the MTN Foundation for the initiative and called on other private organisations and well meaning Nigerians to also join hands with the government.
Dr Abimbola Williams, the Chief Executive of Save the Child Nigeria, an NGO said it was imperative to take into consideration the qualitative care given to a newborn at the point of birth.
She said that mortality usually occurred mostly within the first week of birth, saying that about 90, 000 babies were usually lost in a year.
Williams said that most mothers were ignorant of what to do at the birth of their child and had little or no knowledge about family planning.
She called for greater collaboration and creation of awareness, especially among the rural populace as well as training and retraining of primary care givers in health centres across the country.
Mrs Lilian Amodu, the Chief Executive of Sickle Cell Foundation said that there was the need to educate all traditional and religious leaders to enable them in turn educate their followers on the need to use health facilities provided for them.
NAN reports that the Yellow Heart Initiative is a multi-stakeholder approach supported by the Federal Ministry of Health.
The initiative is aimed at delivering a sustainable intervention that drastically reduces the prevalence of deaths by providing access to quality healthcare for less privileged women and child in the society.
- P.M. News Nigeria
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