Tinubu Launches RenewHER, Says Maternal Mortality National Shame

President Bola Tinubu has flagged disconnected RenewHER, a Presidential Women’s Health Transformation Initiative, to safeguard maternal wellness and women’s well-being.

He described the programme arsenic an reply to 1 of the nation’s astir captious prayers and a cornerstone of a healthier Nigeria, standing it arsenic a nationalist priority.

Speaking connected Thursday nighttime during the Launch Gala and Awards astatine the Presidential Villa, Abuja, President Tinubu, who was represented by his deputy, Vice President Kashim Shettima, noted that women’s wellness is cardinal to Nigeria’s improvement trajectory.

He said the programme was designed to beryllium the nationalist motor of collaboration among each stakeholders successful our run for a healthier Nigeria.

“There is nary greater trial of a nation’s quality than the attraction it extends to its women. Maternal wellness is the heartbeat of each family, the compass of societal stability, and the truest scale of nationalist welfare,” the President said successful a connection by Presidential spokesman, Stanley Nkwocha.

The RenewHER initiative, helium explained, volition present a Presidential focal bureau connected women’s health, moving intimately with the Federal Ministry of Health, the State-Wide Approach Coordination Office (SWAp), the Ministry of Women Affairs, and the Governors’ Spouses Forum to guarantee women’s wellness priorities are embedded “in each state, each section government, and each assemblage crossed the nation.”

The Nigerian person besides announced the instauration of an AI-powered National Women’s Health Digital Hub to present geo-targeted campaigns connected maternal survival, teen health, preventive care, and workforce strengthening.

The hub, helium said, would link women and families with trusted wellness information, portion linking healthcare to entrepreneurship and nationalist prosperity.

“Maternal mortality is simply a shame against which we indispensable each rally. We beryllium each girl-child not conscionable the eloquent committedness of a amended tomorrow, but the certainty of a healthier one,” the President explained, adding that RenewHER volition complement ongoing nationalist initiatives specified arsenic MAMII, portion aligning with planetary improvement partners.

President Tinubu assured that his medication would service arsenic some umbrella and catalyst for interventions crossed each tiers of authorities until RenewHER delivers tangible results.

“With the mandate of the Nigerian people, I hereby unveil RenewHER—our Presidential Women’s Health Commitment,” helium declared.

For her part, the First Lady of Kwara State and Chairperson of the Nigeria Governors Spouses’ Forum, Prof. Olufolake AbdulRazaq, said portion Nigeria’s women’s wellness is important, RenewHER represents the committedness of the Tinubu medication to women’s empowerment.

She assured that the inaugural volition find enactment successful each authorities of the federation done the Nigeria Governors Spouses’ Forum, adding that the forum volition proceed to enactment with authorities governments, the backstage sector, and applicable stakeholders to guarantee the RenewHER objectives are actualized for the betterment of women and girls.

Earlier successful her opening address, Senior Special Assistant to the President connected Women’s Health, Dr. Adanna Steinacker, said the RenewHER inaugural would not person been imaginable without the imaginativeness of President Tinubu, who sees women’s wellness arsenic a nationalist priority.

She urged applicable stakeholders to collaborate by forming 1 question aimed astatine renewing Nigeria’s future.

Also, the United Nations (UN) Women Country Representative for Nigeria, Ms. Beatrice Eyong, described the RenewHER thought arsenic “a turning point” and a “bold initiative”—the archetypal time, astatine the highest level successful Nigeria.

Eyong noted that the national authorities is giving a caller communicative wherever women’s wellness is recognized arsenic a operator of socio-economic growth.

The UN authoritative added that the UN stands acceptable to enactment with the RenewHER squad to “expand access,” thereby ensuring that Nigerian women tin spend to unrecorded with dignity.

Other dignitaries who graced the lawsuit see the Chief of Staff to the President, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, immoderate governors’ wives, and diplomats, among others.