The Federal Government is to recruit 2,000 additional midwives to be deployed to rural areas, Dr Ado Mohammed, Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency has said.
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Mohammed made the disclosure in an interview in Dutse on Sunday.
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He said that the Midwives Service Scheme (MSS) introduced by government was an ongoing programme to tackle maternal mortality in the country.
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The director said that so far, 4,300 midwives were deployed to health facilities in rural areas across the country.
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He noted that the MSS had been implemented in 1,500 health centres, adding that the agency was also training community health officers to assist the midwives.
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"We also recruited some women and built their capacities to provide some basic services in their communities.