Health experts warn of high newborn death rate, push for urgent health reforms

The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, has called for urgent and coordinated enactment to trim Nigeria’s precocious complaint of newborn deaths, informing that the state remains acold from achieving planetary neonatal endurance targets.

Pate made the telephone successful a code delivered connected his behalf by Dr Ahmed Mohammed astatine the 18th Annual General and Scientific Conference of the Nigerian Society of Neonatal Medicine successful Port Harcourt.

The curate said Nigeria’s neonatal mortality complaint stands astatine astir 41 deaths per 1,000 unrecorded births, acold supra the Sustainable Development Goal people of 12 deaths per 1,000 unrecorded births by 2030.

He described the league theme, “Closing the Gap Towards Achieving Newborn-Related Sustainable Development Goals: Ending Nigeria’s Preventable Newborn Deaths,” arsenic timely and aligned with the Federal Government’s wellness priorities.

While acknowledging gradual progress, Pate stressed that achieving the people would necessitate sustained concern and stronger interventions crossed maternal and newborn ...