Akinola Ajibola
Updated December 17, 2020
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, with some of his colleagues at the upper chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja on December 17, 2020.
A bill for an act to provide for the effective surveillance, review, and prevention of maternal and perinatal deaths and related matters for the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2020 (SB. 581) has scaled the second reading in the Senate.
The bill and six others were read for the second time on Thursday during plenary at the upper chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja.
Sponsored by the Senate Committee Chairman on Health, Senator Yahaya Oloriegbe, the bill proposes to introduce a surveillance system to track maternal mortalities in the country and identify the direct and indirect factors responsible for the deaths.
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The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, with some of his colleagues at the upper chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja on December 17, 2020.
A bill for an act to provide for the effective surveillance, review, and prevention of maternal and perinatal deaths and related matters for the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2020 (SB. 581) has scaled the second reading in the Senate.
The bill and six others were read for the second time on Thursday during plenary at the upper chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja.
Sponsored by the Senate Committee Chairman on Health, Senator Yahaya Oloriegbe, the bill proposes to introduce a surveillance system to track maternal mortalities in the country and identify the direct and indirect factors responsible for the deaths.