Mrs Saraki Presents Training Arm Models To The 98 Midwifery Schools In Nigeria

         

The Wife of the Senate President, Mrs. Toyin Saraki, presented 200 Training Arm Models donated by Merck Stopes to the 98 Midwifery schools in the country and urged midwife tutors to ensure effective use of the equipment.

Mrs. Saraki, who spoke on Thursday when she received the Resident Representative of the United Nations Population Funds (UNFPA), Mrs. Ratidzai Ndalovu, in Abuja, also called for more concerted awareness and sensitization campaign in the fight against infant mortality.

UNFPA Said Nigeria Has The Highest Number Of VVF Cases In The World :(

           

The United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) has estemated that Nigeria has the highest number of women with Vesico Vagina Fistula.

With the estimated two million women in the world suffering from VVF, about 680,000 of them are Nigerians, mostly from the Northeast and Northwest.

This is even as a total estimated 800,000 Nigerian women living with the condition around the country represent about 40 per cent of the global burden.

VVF is described as abnormal opening between the virginal and the bladder, a condition experienced by a woman either as a result of prolonged labour during childbirth in which the unborn child presses tightly against the pelvis, cutting off blood flow to the vesico-vaginal wall, thereby leaving a hole or as a result of violent rape, especially in cases of child marriages.