The Country Director of Ipas Nigeria Health Foundation, Lucky Palmer, has identified Nigeria as one of the countries with the highest maternal deaths in the world.
Making the observation on Monday in a press statement issued in Taraba State, Northeast Nigeria through the Network of Reproductive Health Journalists-Nigeria, he said, “Nigeria has one of the highest maternal deaths in the world, with 1047 deaths per every 100,000 live births.”
Palmer, who noted that unsafe abortions contributed to over 15 per cent of the maternal deaths, believed that it is time for stakeholders to work collaboratively in directing investments that eliminate entrenched gender disparities and empower women and girls to make decisions that affect them, including sexual and reproductive decisions devoid of coercion.
