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February 27, 2019
The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, has inauguratedInter-Ministerial Committee on the establishment of the National ObstetricFistula Centres in Nigeria towards ensuring the reduction of Obstetric Fistulacases.
Director, Media and Public Relations of the MinistryBoade Akinola, made this known in a statement issued in Abuja.
Akinola said the Federal Government had designatedthree 3 facilities located in Kaduna, Bauchi and Ebonyi States as NationalObstetric Fistula centres for prevention, treatment, training and research.
She quoted Adewole as saying that the NationalCentres were expected to provide technical backstopping as well as act asreferral centres to the several health facilities where fistula cases werediagnosed in the six geopolitical zones.
The minister said government was working relentlesslyto ensure availability of functional Primary Health Care centres, skilled birthattendants, as some of the preventive measures against obstetric fistula.