Rotary International, District 9125 Nigeria, says it has received a grant of $500,000 to strengthen the health systems so as to boost maternal and child health in five states of the federation.

Making the disclosure recently in Abuja, the Chief Oversight Officer, SHI, Dr Mike Omotosho, said a pilot programme was run in five health facilities in the two states of Kano and Kaduna.

However, given the success of the pilot programme, he revealed that the organization received a grant of $500,000 to expand it into five states, with three additional states to join Kano and Kaduna, which include, Enugu, Ondo and FCT.

He said that the pilot was able to show a 62 per cent reduction in maternal and child mortality, saying, “so we are hoping that the states will be able to replicate this and our society can be a better place, not just for us but for our unborn babies.”

He said, “ In these states, we are going to every health facility and document all the best practices we have been able to gather from the pilot and then use them to make the health systems better so that we can drag down mortality rate for maternal and child health.”

Also, in an effort to alleviate the sufferings of poor Nigerians and increase access to clean water across the country, the District has concluded plans to install 250 boreholes across 23 states of the that make up the District.

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