Wife of the embattled senate president, Toyin Saraki, the Founder-Director of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa, has outlined the importance of investing in midwifery.
Mrs Toyin Saraki
Ahead of the Inaugural Global Midwifery Conference, Her Excellency, Mrs Toyin Saraki, the Founder-Director of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa, and ICM Global Goodwill Ambassador, outlines the importance of investing in midwifery.
He Toyin Saraki expressed the following points:
- The value of midwives in Nigeria is being shown in the unlikeliest of places - camps for internally displaced people (IDP) uprooted by Boko Haram militants.
- Around one in five babies are dying during childbirth in northeast Nigeria, where the Islamist group has waged a six-year insurgency, yet the survival rate of pregnancies delivered in IDP camps in the region is almost 100 percent
- At this conference, the midwives will not only learn how to save a mother and child's life, but also how to detect women at risk of domestic violence and female genital mutilation (FGM)
- While Nigeria has started training midwives in life-saving emergency obstetric care in recent years, it still lacks enough midwives or an even distribution across the nation
- Midwives will be the army to change dire health outcomes, if we invest in them and provide them with skills
- Nigerian midwives need to be able to stand on an equal footing with midwives from around the world.
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