Kano Gets Equipment to Fight Maternal Mortality

Kano — The ACCESS/MCHIP, a USAID project, has donated medical equipments for the training of midwives to the Kano State Ministry of Health. The Country Director, ACCESS/MCHIP, Prof Emmanuel Otolorin, said the gesture was borne out of the desire to sustain the training of health workers towards reducing child and maternal mortality in the state.

Otolorin said for the past four years, they had been training health workers in Kano on basic obstetric emergency care skills. Every year, a total of 600 workers were trained, he said, adding that in order to sustain the training, the project decided to supply the training equipment to the school of midwifery so that the students would be trained right in school and graduate after mastering the skills.

Receiving the items, the Commissioner for Health Hajia Aisha Kiru expressed gratitude, saying the donation was timely in view of its need and cost. She said when the ministry wants to supply equipment to its health facilities, they go to as far as Lagos to buy them at an exorbitant prices.
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