OOUTH CMAC advocates stronger referral system to curb maternal deaths

The Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee, CMAC, Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, OOUTH, Dr Oluseun Adek has advocated stronger exigency referral systems to trim preventable maternal deaths successful Nigeria.

Adek said adjacent wherever tertiary hospitals person specialists, humor supply, operating theatres and indispensable medicines, specified resources cannot prevention patients who cannot scope them successful clip owed to breached referral, proscription and connection systems.

According to him, aesculapian innovation should not beryllium measured lone by blase exertion oregon the fig of probe papers published, but by the grade to which discoveries amended patients' wellness and prime of life.

He made the telephone arsenic a impermanent talker astatine the Annual General Meeting of the Islamic Medical Association of Nigeria, IMAN, Ogun State Chapter, successful Abeokuta.

Speaking connected the theme, "From Lab to Langer: Taking Medical Innovations to Underserved Communities," Adek said Nigeria's wellness situation was not deficiency of aesculapian knowledge, but nonaccomplishment to construe existing cognition into accessible attraction for mean citizens.

"The occupation is simply a breached span betwixt what medicine knows and what the diligent tin really reach," helium said, citing the lawsuit of a large pistillate successful a agrarian assemblage who develops terrible bleeding aft childbirth but suffers delays successful proscription and referral.

He said preventing maternal de...