Ebonyi To Treat Women With Maternal Complications

The Ebonyi government has pledged to sponsor the treatment of women with pregnancy-related complications to control maternal mortality in the state.

Gov. Martin Elechi made this known in Abakaliki  Wednesday when a delegation of women from Izzi local government, led by Mrs Adeline Idike , paid him a courtesy call as part of the celebration of the council’s annual New Yam festival.

Elechi said his government would ensure that women were protected from the dangers of childbirth and other related complications to keep them alive.

“If it requires that we spend our whole money to treat women with such complications, we would do it to prove our sincerity on eradicating maternal mortality.

“We have also equipped primary health centres in the state to provide the needed services to our women,” he said.

The governor thanked the women for the visit, noting that the occasion called for celebration and reflection on issues affecting the society.

“The festival is the celebration of the year in the area as it reminds the people of their origin and the laws guiding their co-existence as a people.

“It should also be an occasion for us to reflect on the conflict between traditional and religious observance which we have not handled properly,” he said.

He charged the women to seek permanent solution to the kindred problems in their area that had defied solution.

“The problem has caused discrimination among people who are supposed to live as members of one family, it is time the trend is checked.

“I have ensured that all appointees in my government who are from the area are selected without recourse to the kindred debacle,” he said.

Earlier, Mrs Josephine Elechi, wife of the governor, who received the women in the company of her husband, thanked them for the visit and enjoined them to continue being the agents of change in the area.

She urged the governor to investigate the case of a late widow, who was surcharged in the compensation given to victims of demolition at the proposed Ocho-Udo city to make sure her family is compensated.