145 women die of pregnancy related cases daily

About 145 women die daily in Nigeria as a result of pregnancy related cases, Chief Executive Officer, Live well Initiative, Mrs Bisi Bright, has said.

Speaking yesterday in Okada during an International Pharmaceutical Students Federation (IPSF) Leaders- intraining workshop under the theme, Promoting Healthcare System in West Africa through Health Campaign Initiative, Mrs Bright lamented that Nigeria’s maternal mortality rate in every 100,000 birth stood at 608, which he said was still very high compared with countries like Ghana with 409 and South Africa 237.

The workshop was organized by a final year pharmacist student of Igbinedion University, Okada Mr. Adeyemi Sylvester, who said his effort resulted from his belief that youths, if adequately trained, could conduct public health awareness campaign to places where public health institutions might not reach.