Dear Nura,
What sickens me most is that both Prof. Akunyili and Mrs Yar'adua don't seem to have an alternative source to corroborate their careless statement(s). They have not shown any factual cause to defend their careless assertions. I am disturbed that the highly respected Prof. will associate herself with such an unscientific way of determining data.
They should be more concern in addressing the problem irrespective of whether we are doing badly down below or not. No mother should die giving birth... it is absolutely unacceptable. Mrs Yaradua and Prof should face the very hard reality and make the issue as important as the so called RE-BRANDING of Dear Nigeria or what ever they choose to call it. How can they re -brand Nigeria when they cannot do a simple scientific and credible research on the issue of maternal health.
Yes Nigeria is at the bottom end, it is ranking second lowest after the Democratic Republic of Congo and yes the UNICEF says so, SAVE THE CHILDREN says so, Yes PATHFINDER says so, Yes WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION says so, Yes WORLD POPULATION LIST says so and so many other credible organisations are saying and will continue to say so. More over the Nigerian people see these deaths happening every day. I am not surprised Mrs Yar'adua is saying so because her daughters may never see a Nigerian hospital when they are having their babies.... lucky Nigerians they are!
Dear Nura lets ask them to give us their own version of a credible data assuming they have one!
Sincerely,
Sa'ida Sa’ad 08037876939
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