Health Care: FG Inaugurates Committee To Audit Maternal, Infant Mortality - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 26, 2019
The Federal Government in collaboration with theWorld Health Organisation, WHO has inaugurated the Maternal and PerinatalHealth Database Committee.
The committee will monitor and generate data fromforty eight tertiary institutions on the causes of infant and maternalmortality in the country.
The Minister of Health Isaac Adewole, saidinauguration of the committee was an important milestone in health systemsstrengthening and medical death audit, to ensure the rapid reduction ofmaternal and perinatal mortality.
The Minister, who was represented by Director FamilyHealth at the ministry, Adebimpe Adebiyi said the database to be used wasdesigned to capture the death of mothers or babies as well as the causes ofsuch deaths.
WHO Officer in Charge of Nigeria, Clement Peterssaid the system would generate a database that would be used to address theimmediate and remote causes of infant and maternal mortality in the hospitals.