NGO decries mortality rate in Zamfara

A non-governmental organisation in Zamfara State, Zamfara Accountability Mechanism On MNCH, has expressed concern over the increasing rate of maternal and child mortality in the state.
Speaking to journalists at a news briefing in Gusau, the co-Chairman of ZAMoM, Alhaji Rabiu Sambo, said, “The rate at which child bearing women and new born children are dying in the state has become alarming, which led to the formation of this coalition.”
Sambo said that the body had three major segments made up of evidence generation, advocacy and knowledge sharing, which are working together in all the health facilities in the state to find the major causes of maternal and new born mortality.
He disclosed that one of the group’s early discoveries was that women died during child delivery due to post mortem hemorrhage, which is loss of blood.
This, he further explained, was caused by lack of blood screening equipment in the state, thereby leaving patients at the mercy of health personnel to carry out unsafe blood transfusion on them.