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BBC African Health Correspondent, Lagos
At the age of 24, Nafisa Salahu was in danger of being a woman in which a woman was born every seven minutes in every seven minutes, in Nigeria.
Although he was on vacation in a doctor’s holiday, there was a specialist in the hospital, despite being in the hospital.
The baby’s head was clutching, and he was not about to lie during the three-day labor.
Finally a Caesareanor was recommended and a doctor was prepared to implement it.
“I almost died I was thank God. I remained strong, I did not stay, nothing left,” said MS Salahu, BBC from the state of Canoe to the BBC.
He survived, but the tragic baby died.
It lasts for eleven years, a few times returned to the hospital by building a childbirth and a deadly relationship. “I (every time) I was among life and death, but I didn’t be afraid.”
The experience of MS Salahu is not unusual.
Nigeria is the most dangerous nation in the world.
According to Evaluation of the latest UN countriesCompiled from the figure 2023, one of 100 people die in women or days.
This puts the head of the league, no country does not want to happen.
In 2023, Nigeria, in a quarter, chose a well for 29% of all the mother’s deaths in the world.
This is the death of about 75,000 women in the birth of 75,000 women in birth every seven minutes.
WARNING: This article has an image that a newborn child describes.
For many, frustration is a large number of deaths – after birth – is known as bleeding (postpartum is known as a bleeding).
Chinenye Nweze was 36 years old when he could die in a hospital in the southeastern city of Onitsha five years ago.
“Doctors needed blood,” said the brother Henry Edeh remembers. “Their blood was insufficient and missed around. My sister and my friend is not something I dreamed of losing an enemy. The pain is not unbearable.”
Among other common reasons for the mother’s death, labor, high blood pressure and dangerous abortions are blocked.
Nigeria’s “very high” mother’s death rate is the result of a number of factors, according to Martin Dohlsten, UNICEF announced the Nigerian Office of the UN Children’s Organization.
Among them, he is weak, the lack of health infrastructure, the lack of cuisine, cuisine deficiency and expensive treatment, which can cause many unsafe medical professionals and insecurities.
“No woman deserves to die while a child is union,” Maul says the National Coordinator of the Women’s Development Foundation Mabel Onwuemena.
Especially in rural areas, some women, “total loss of hospitals visiting hospitals” explain that there are “traditional treatment, instead of receiving self-saving medical care.”
For some, it is close due to lack of traffic to achieve a hospital or clinic, but MS OnWuemena believes that if they can not end.
“Many medical institutions complicate the lack of basic equipment, supplies and trained personnel, quality service.”
The Nigerian Federal Government currently has only 5% of the 15% target budget for the African Union agreement.
In 2021, 121,000 mams for the population of 218 million were controlled by a qualified medical employee of less than half of all the birth. The country is estimated that 700,000 nurses and midwives need to meet the ratio recommended by the World Health Organization.
There is also a lack of heavy doctors.
Lack of staff and facilities are off some way looking for professional help.
“I honestly trust hospitals, especially in public hospitals, there is a very negligent story,” said Jamila Isaac.
“For example, when I was in my fourth child, there were complications during his work.
A 28-year-old young man from Kano is waiting for his fifth baby.
It adds that it is considered to go to a private clinic, but the cost is prohibited.
Chinwendu Obiejesi, who is waiting for his third child, is able to pay for private health in a hospital and “won’t look anywhere else.”
He says the mother’s deaths are rare among his friends and family, but he heard about them very often.
To get to hospitals, better and ambulance services are better and live in a wealthy fact. More women in the city are also educated and know the need to go to the hospital.
“I am always in an antenatal care … This allows you to talk to doctors, see important tests and scans and watch the baby,” MS Obiejesi said.
“For example, in my second pregnancy, they expected to be very bleeding, so they made extra blood when a transfusion was needed. Thank you did not need it, and everything went well.”
But a friend of a family was not so lucky.
During his second contribution, the birth worker could not deliver the baby and did not force it. Baby died. It’s still late. He still had an operation to deliver the baby’s body. “
Dr. Nana Sandah-Abubakar acknowledges that the situation is terrible in the country’s National Primary Health Development Agency (NPHCDA), but a new plan has been set to solve some issues.
November last year, the Nigerian government has launched a maternal death in the Innovation Initiative (MamiI). Finally, this will target 172 local government areas for 33 states, which make up more than half of more than half of the dead.
“We determine every pregnant woman, where we live and pregnant, and supported him and beyond him,” says Drand Sandah-Abubakar.
So far, in six states, 400,000 pregnant women, in a survey of home in-house, “In Ante-Natal (in classes) (in classes) (in classes) or not.”
“The plan is to start closing them to the services to ensure their care.
Mamii will be able to work with local transport networks and to get more women in clinics and mark people up to low-precious health insurance.
It is still too early to say, but it hopes that the government can watch the world’s remaining trend in the world.
In the global scale, the maternal mortality has decreased by 40% since 2000 since 2000. Numbers have improved in Nigeria in the same period – but 13%.
Despite Mamii and other programs, other programs with initiatives, some specialists should be done more, including more investments.
“Their success depends on continuous financing, effective application and sustainable monitoring to ensure the obtaining the intended results,” the UNICEF said Mr. Dohlsten.
Meanwhile, every mother’s loss in Nigeria will continue to be a tragedy for families who participate every day – every day.
According to Mr. Edeh, sadness is still raw.
“When we have lost our parents when we grow up, we went to be our anchor and spine,” he said.
“When I passed my mind, I’m crying.”