Experts, Traditional Rulers Decry Rising Maternal Mortality In Bauchi

Health experts successful Bauchi State person raised caller concerns implicit rising maternal mortality, urging intensified efforts to beforehand antenatal attraction attendance among large women arsenic a cardinal measurement toward safeguarding the lives of mothers and children.

They made the telephone during the quarterly gathering of the Community Advisory Board (CAB) organised by the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) project, College of Medical Sciences, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi.

With the taxable “Encouraging Pregnant Women to Attend Antenatal and Enrol connected CHAMPS Pregnancy Surveillance During the First Trimester and Managing Rumours Related to the Project,” the gathering spotlighted the urgent request for stronger assemblage sensitisation connected maternal healthcare.
Principal researcher of the CHAMPS project, Dr. Lamaran Dattijo who was represented by Dr. Abubakar Umar, reaffirmed the initiative’s committedness to deepening collaboration with communities successful tackling maternal and kid deaths.

He noted that CHAMPS is moving to make evidence-based cognition connected the causes of kid mortality and construe that cognition into life-saving interventions.

“Community leaders are captious to this mission. Their guidance helps america align subject with taste realities and ensures the task resonates astatine the grassroots,” helium said.

Chairman of the CHAMPS Community Advisory Board who is besides the District Head of Ganjuwa, Baba Mohammed Gidado, commended the project’s contributions to improving superior healthcare transportation successful Bauchi. He pledged continued enactment from the accepted institution, stressing that protecting women and children remains a corporate responsibility.

In his presentation, Lead Community Engagement Officer, Dr. Jamilu Yaya, urged participants to actively antagonistic rumours with close information, informing that unchecked misconceptions astir maternal and kid wellness airs a superior hazard to progress.

“Rumours tin derail life-saving programmes,” Yaya cautioned. “We indispensable empower communities with facts truthful that they tin marque informed decisions that prevention lives.”

The gathering drew information from accepted rulers, section authorities officials, the enforcement president of the Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Board, and different stakeholders, each of whom pledged to measurement up assemblage outreach and advocacy for maternal health.