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262,000 babies die yearly as poor women shun hospitals for traditional birth centres.
ENIOLA AKINKUOTU, who visited several traditional birth centres, narrates the conditions in which a majority of pregnant women in rural communities give birth
One-month old Patience Okon may never remember the events of November 14, 2020 because she is too little to understand what happened. However, the scars on her face, hands, legs and other parts of her body will serve as a reminder of the suffering she faced on the day she was born.
Her unemployed mother had fallen into labour on the fateful day while her father, Daniel, who is a mechanic’s apprentice, took her to a traditional birth centre in Calabar, the Cross River State capital.