Management Sciences for Health (MSH), an organisation which supports health projects in 19 states in Nigeria, has expressed concern on health indices in the country. It said it was unacceptable that more than 150 women die every day due to preventable causes while 2,300 children die daily and another one in five Nigerian children will not celebrate the 5th birthday.She said stakeholders had to examine how their actions or inactivity had continued to needlessly endanger the lives of women and children, but more importantly to have conversations on what they could do to end these preventable deaths. MSH has backed universal health coverage and praised steps taken by the Nigerian government toward it, after helping to enrol about 6,000 beneficiaries for community health insurance in Rivers and Akwa Ibom. “We understand that it will not happen in a day, but are encouraged with the share determination that we see to increase stewardship, accountability and transparency,” said Kpamor.
MSH, with funding from the US Agency for International Development, implements nine projects which had in the past 10 years, counselled and tested more than two million people for HIV, including 750,166 pregnant women, according to its records. More than 9,500 people have been placed on life saving medications and 66,881 orphans and vulnerable children were served directly and indirectly, said Kpamor.
Source: Medical World Nigeria