In this report by SADE OGUNTOLA, experts say that despite the abortion restrictive law, many women and girls still patronise patent medicine vendors and pharmacies for misoprostol, making their training on the drug very important to stem deaths and complications from unsafe abortion.
For Mr Hammed Adesesan, a male nurse, listening to a father cry for help to get a safe abortion to terminate a pregnancy after the younger son impregnated the older sister was better imagined than experienced.
“Watching the siblings sitting in my office, and joking away, as their father explained his dilemma and why he is seeking for abortion left me thinking of reasons that despite Nigeria’s restrictive abortion laws, many abortions still take place unabated,” recounted Mr Adesesan.