Nigeria currently needs a total of about 30, 000 midwives to effectively stem the tide of maternal mortality in the country, Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) said yesterday.
Dr Muhammad Pate also said that the involvement of community health extension workers in the midwives service scheme was due to the dearth of midwives to attend to dying women.
He said whatever decision taken by the agency was borne out of the Federal Government’s desire to save the lives of women and not to undermine the authority of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM).
Pate, who was represented by the Director, Primary Health Care System Development, Dr. Mohammed Abdullahi, spoke during a consultation visit to the leadership of the NANNM at its headquarters in Abuja.
He observed with concern the acute dearth of midwives particularly in the northern parts of the country as evidenced by the insufficient number of applicants to the scheme.
Responding, the General Secretary, National Association of Nurses and Midwives, Mr. George Ayua, said the problem of insufficient number of participants arose because of what he called non-involvement of the association in mobilizing its members for the scheme.
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