Salient issues were discussed during the one day workshop held, yesterday, in Umuahia, Abia State Capital, for health workers and stakeholders in the sector, topmost being practical demonstration of how health workers should handle babies during and after birth.
A resource neonatologist from the University of Benin, Dr. Ikechukwu Okonkwo, said in view of Nigeria’s second position ranking in global neonatal and pre-natal deaths, Abia state ought to step up efforts to address the challenges. The Executive Secretary of Abia State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr. Chinagozi Adindu, stated that unless babies breath well, they would have slim chances of survival, adding that the state governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu’s, government had effected numerous health interventions to improve the healthcare of Abians, including commissioning a modern children hospital at Umuahia with plans to replicate same in the other two senatorial districts of the state.
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