NPHCDA Moves To Reduce Maternal Deaths

The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPCDA), says it will use the Midwives Service Scheme (MSS) to reduce maternal and infant deaths in the North-East zone.

Dr Usman Adamu, the agency’s Zonal Coordinator, has said that a meeting was held with the monitoring and evaluation officers of all the states within the zone on how to strengthen the data collecting system in furtherance of the midwives programme.

Adamu added that plans were on to put in place an efficient monitoring and evaluation mechanism to improve maternal and child healthcare service delivery.

The coordinator said each state had nine clusters and four MSS focal facilities, adding that four midwives and two community health extension workers had been deployed to each facility.

According to him, the Bauchi State Government has agreed to employ all the deployed midwives as permanent and pensionable employees of the state.

“The employment is meant for all those willing to stay in Bauchi – indigene or non-indigene; so, it means vacancies will be created for others to be deployed because already the bureaucratic process of the appointment is ongoing,” he added.