TO check maternal mortality and move towards the attainment of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), politicians must use their offices and campaign machineries to amplify the issue of reproductive health in the country.
The Chairman of Conference of Ward Development Committees for Maternal and Morbidity Reduction Project (CWDC for MMREP), Alhaji Salahuddeen Busairi, made the call at the sensitisation workshop for people of Oluyole and Ibadan North local government areas of Oyo State.
At the forum organised by Physicians for Social Responsibilities (PSR), Finland and Primary Health Care and Management Centre (PriHEMAC) for people of Ibadan councils, he said politicians must display sustained efforts to save humanity through the safety of mothers and children.
Busairi therefore implored the participants at the event to strive hard and join the league of people whose duty was to save humanity in the realisation of adequate maternal and child health care in Nigeria.
He said that participants at the workshop were able to identify with some of latent issues that needed adequate attention such as exclusive breastfeeding, at least for the first six months of the baby's life, nutrition and balanced diet; prevention and treatment of malaria infection and immunization against deadly childhood diseases.
Busairi said: “I implore all of us in the struggle to make it mandatory upon us to see that all pregnant women, nursing mothers, and others in a given community imbibe all the identified related issues on Maternal and Child Health care. Individual Ward Development Committees (WDC) at their ward level should come out with enlightenment programmes on these issues.”
He expressed gratitude to mentors of the initiative, PSR and PriHEMAC for the opportunity given to him to attend the BBC-World Service Trust Training Workshop tagged: “Igniting Changes.”
By Opeyemi Adesina
http://www.compassnewspaper.com/NG/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=67821:politicians-must-stand-up-against-maternal-mortality&catid=42:commune&Itemid=796
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