UN, Canadian, Donate 6.2m Dollars Maternal Health Commodities To Nigeria

[Shola Sholaz]

The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and Canada have donated maternal health commodities and medical equipment worth about 6.2 million dollars to the Federal Government.
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This is contained in a statement signed by Mrs Kori Habib, Press Officer, UNFPA , and made available in Abuja on Monday.
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According to the statement, the items will be formally presented on Dec. 10 in Ikeja and will be handed over to the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA).
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It stated that the health care agency would further distribute the commodities to other health service centres already benefiting from the Midwives Service Scheme and SURE-P in the six focal states.
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The statement said the benefiting states were Lagos, Kebbi, Cross River, Kaduna, Adamawa and Ebonyi.
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It said the UNFPA's intervention was a demonstration of government and development partners' commitment to scale up access to life-saving commodities that would reduce maternal mortality.