Society for Family Health, SFH, in conjunction with the Adamawa chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, has launched the Emergency Transport Scheme in the state, ETS.
The scheme, it said, seeks to reduce maternal mortality by providing transportation facilities to women during labour and helping them access various health facilities, especially in the hinterland where there is poor access to transportation facilities.
While delivering the keynote address, Coordinator of SHF in Adamawa State, Dr. Issa Yusuf, said saving women was vital to saving the society.
He added that it became imperative for the organisation, in synergy with other concerned organisations, to embark on saving lives of women and newborn, “in view of the strategic place occupied by women in the socio economic development of the country”.
Yusuf decried the high number of women being lost in the process of childbearing due to poor access to transportation facilities, saying the challenge was one of the factors identified to be responsible for high maternal death.
“Most women are being consumed through the process of child bearing,” he said. “Poor access to health and transportation facilities accounts for high maternal death recorded.”
Yusuf added that his organisation was doing a lot in sensitising pregnant women to avail themselves opportunity for antenatal care being provided by the government, as that would go a long way in preventing maternal death in the country.
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