Nigeria has second-highest global stillbirths —Report

An international medical journal,Lancet, has rated Nigeria as having the second-highest stillbirth cases in the world.
The journal made this known in a study released on Tuesday.
The World Health Organisation, United Nations Children’s Fund and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine jointly sponsored the study.
According to the research, the globe records more than 2.6milllion stillbirths annually, with 98 per cent of the cases said to be occurring in low and middle-income countries.
The research also highlighted that it might take more than 160 years before a pregnant woman in Africa would have the same chance of having her baby born alive like her counterpart in a high-income country today.

The journal noted that despite an increasing number cases of stillbirths in Nigeria, (more than 300,000 stillbirth cases recorded in 2015), it had made slow progress in stillbirth prevention.
According to the report, for recording 1.3 per cent annual rate of reduction in 15 years, Nigeria placed 123rd for progress on stillbirth prevention out of 159 countries with comparable data.
Co-author of the research, Joy Lawn, said if infections during pregnancy as well as non-communicable such as hypertension, diabetes and obesity were tackled, the development would go a long way in reducing the cases of stillbirth globally.
She added, “We must give a voice to the mothers of 7,200 babies stillborn around the world every day. There is a common misperception that many of the deaths are inevitable, but our research shows most stillbirths are preventable. Half of the 2.6 million annual deaths could be prevented with improved care for women and babies during labour and childbirth, and additionally, many more lives could be saved with effective care during pregnancy.
“We already know which existing interventions save lives. These babies should not be born in silence, their parents should not be grieving in silence, and the international community must break the silence as they have done for maternal and child deaths.”

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