The Federal Government in collaboration with the World Health Organisation, WHO has inaugurated the Maternal and Perinatal Health Database Committee.
The committee will monitor and generate data from forty eight tertiary institutions on the causes of infant and maternal mortality in the country.
The Minister of Health Isaac Adewole, said inauguration of the committee was an important milestone in health systems strengthening and medical death audit, to ensure the rapid reduction of maternal and perinatal mortality.
The Minister, who was represented by Director Family Health at the ministry, Adebimpe Adebiyi said the database to be used was designed to capture the death of mothers or babies as well as the causes of such deaths.
WHO Officer in Charge of Nigeria, Clement Peters said the system would generate a database that would be used to address the immediate and remote causes of infant and maternal mortality in the hospitals.
