The Federation of Muslim Women’s Associations in Nigeria (FOMWAN) has decried the high rate of deaths among childbearing mothers in Nigeria saying that about 145 of them die during child delivery every day.
The Project Director of Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health (PACFaH) under FOMWAN, Adamu Musa Kachalla disclosed this yesterday at a one-day sensitisation meeting on family planning, immunisation and nutrition with representatives of faith- based organisations and women groups in Abuja.
She said that FOMWAN works to sensitise and mobilise religious leaders, traditional rulers and women groups and train them on four issues that are bothering family health like nutrition, routine immunisation, family planning and infant health.
Kachalla said, “After this training, we expect all participants to tell their followers, to advocate and influence decision makers so that they will allocate more funding for family planning commodities, maternal and infant care.
“We want the government to fund more commodities for family planning and in nutrition. We want to adopt the National Strategic Action on Nutrition and implement it so that at the end of the day, nobody will have children who are stunted, out of school and suffering.
“We have a very high rate of maternal mortality and with child spacing, we can take care of that. We want to reduce that both at the national and state level,” she added.
She said that although there are lots of misconceptions surrounding family planning most especially in Northern Nigeria, child spacing has always been practiced in the region.
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