Anambra State Government through the Ministry of Health has held a two-day residential training for Community Based Maternal, Perinatal and Child Death Surveillance and Response team in Awka.
The exercise which is training of the trainers attracted reproductive health officers from the twenty-one local government areas of the state.
Speaking during the training, the Anambra state Head of Reproductive Health, Dr. Uju Okoye who revealed that Anambra is the first state in the southeast to implement the Maternal and Perinatal Child Death law, eulogized Governor Chukwuma Soludo for approving the training describing it a big step towards the reduction of maternal mortality and morbidity in the state.
Dr. Okoye explained that the people being trained would in turn go to the various communities in the state and train those who will be in charge of child death surveillance and response in order to get accurate data that would help the government to make adequate planning for prevention of such deaths.
The Head of Department, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Associate Professor George Eleje said that the training was as a result of the high mortality and morbidity rate in Nigeria and commended the Anambra State Government for organizing the training which he said will help to collect and document realistic data of those children and women who die in various villages but were not documented.
One of the participants at the event and Head of Reproductive Health in Anambra East Local Government Area, Mrs. Adaeze Alokwu promised that they will do their job judiciously and equitably.
Recall that recently, the wife of the Governor, Mrs. Nonye Soludo distributed anti shock kits to various hospitals in the state also geared towards the reduction of maternal and mortality rates in the state.
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