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Nigeria: Nigeria Loses 250,000 Babies to Preventable, Treatable Causes Annually
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Nigeria loses 250,000 babies to preventable, treatable causes annually Expert
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By Chioma Obinna
Despite the global efforts to end preventable newborn deaths by 2030, through the Sustainable Development Goal 3.2, Experts have raised the alarm that Nigeria loses over 250,000 babies yearly due to preventable and treatable causes even as the country ranks second highest globally in infant deaths.
According to a Professor of Paediatrics at the College of Medicine University of Lagos, and Clinical Lead, Newborn Essential Solution and Technologies, NEST360, Prof Chinyere Ezeaka with current slow progress, it may take Nigerian 100 years to meet the goal.
Ezeaka Identified causes of newborn deaths in Nigeria to include prematurity, infections, birth asphyxia, congenital abnormalities among others, she said these would be reduced with the wide-scale adoption of comprehensive newborn care, a standard of care available in the United States and the United Kingdom.
By Chioma Obinna
Despite the global efforts to end preventable newborn deaths by 2030, through the Sustainable Development Goal 3.2, Experts have raised the alarm that Nigeria loses over 250,000 babies yearly due to preventable and treatable causes even as the country ranks second highest globally in infant deaths.
According to a Professor of Paediatrics at the College of Medicine University of Lagos, and Clinical Lead, Newborn Essential Solution and Technologies, NEST360, Prof Chinyere Ezeaka with current slow progress, it may take Nigerian 100 years to meet the goal.
Ezeaka Identified causes of newborn deaths in Nigeria to include prematurity, infections, birth asphyxia, congenital abnormalities among others, she said these would be reduced with the wide-scale adoption of comprehensive newborn care, a standard of care available in the United States and the United Kingdom.
‘Nigeria loses 250,000 babies to preventable, treatable causes annually’
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By Chioma Obinna
Despite the global efforts to end preventable newborn deaths by 2030, through the Sustainable Development Goal 3.2, experts have raised the alarm that Nigeria loses over 250,000 babies yearly due to preventable and treatable causes, even as the country ranks second highest globally in infant deaths.
According to a Professor of Paediatrics at the College of Medicine University of Lagos, and Clinical Lead, Newborn Essential Solution and Technologies, NEST360, Professor Chinyere Ezeaka, with current slow progress, it may take Nigerian 100 years to meet the goal.
Ezeaka identified causes of newborn deaths in Nigeria to include prematurity, infections, birth asphyxia, congenital abnormalities among others, she said these would be reduced with the wide-scale adoption of comprehensive newborn care, a standard of care available in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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