Anambra Govt re- echoes Call on Early Antenatal care

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Governor Willie Obiano

Mothers in Anambra state have been urged to take very serious, the issue of antenatal care to prevent avoidable complications during child birth.

The charge was delivered to the mothers as the State’s Ministry of Health celebrated the 2020 “Safe Motherhood Day” in Awka with a call on pregnant women to start antenatal care on time.

In a welcome address, the Permanent Secretary, Anambra State ministry of Health, Dr John Ndibe, said safe motherhood is a topical issue globally but more so in developing countries where there are still very high maternal and infant mortality rate.


He noted that it is not fair that women, while bringing forth life into the world, dies in the process, especially when there are interventions to prevent such.

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Dr Ndibe stressed the need for pregnant mothers to register early for antenatal as well as patronize skilled birth attendants in government approved health facilities.
In a lecture, one of the facilitators, Lady Chinelo Isiogu, explained that the celebration of this year’s safe motherhood is to among other things, encourage pregnant mothers to access safe and quality antenatal care to enable them deliver their babies safely.

She disclosed that the 2020 motherhood celebration was supposed to be held on the eleventh of April but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was shifted to May.

During his lecture, the Director Public Health and Disease Control, Anambra State, Dr Uchebo Onyejimbe, who spoke extensively on Emergency Obstetric care, emphasized the dangers pregnant mothers encounter when they patronize unskilled birth attendants which according to him, can result in the death of the mothers and their babies.

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Dr Onyejimbe while speaking on measures women can take to prevent infections and diseases during pregnancy asked them to always maintain body and environmental hygiene.

In a brief remark, a Reproductive Health Supervisor, Mrs. Obiageli Uchebo, thanked God for Governor Willie Obiano’s interventions in the Health Sector and charged pregnant participants to carry the message of the day’s event to their various communities.

Cross section of participants

In appreciation, one of the pregnant mothers, Mrs. Ukamaka Emeka from Ihiala, who affirmed that she learnt a lot from the occasion, thanked the organizers and prayed God to bless them. Presentation of gift items to the pregnant mothers and group photograph featured during the event.

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The event attracted Reproductive Health Supervisors from the twenty-one local government areas of the state, staff of the Ministry of Health and twenty-one pregnant women from each of the council areas of the state.

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