The maternal mortality and child morbidity situation in Nigeria is abysmal and worrisome. In Africa, the country has the worst record; and globally, Nigeria’s record is only better than India’s. As a woman dies from childbirth, 30 others suffer long term chronic ill-health. The risk of a woman dying from childbirth is one out of eight in Nigeria, compared to one out of 61 for all developed countries and one out of 29, 800 for Sweden. Although abortion complications predispose women to infertility and ectopic pregnancy, which swell the rate of maternal mortality, malaria scourge has been found to be the greatest contributor to incidence of maternal mortality in Nigeria. Some other factors contributing to the country’s maternal mortality include lack of antenatal care, low proportion of women being attended to by skilled birth attendants, delay in the treatment of complications of pregnancy, poverty, harmful traditional practices and low status of women.
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