The Federal Government has concluded plans to pay women who attend antenatal clinics the sum of N5,000 as part of efforts to tackle the menace of maternal mortality.

The plan would be executed as part of the Midwifery Service Scheme (MSS) introduced in 2010.

The Director, Primary Health Care System Development with the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Abdullahi Mohammed, disclosed the conclusion of payment plan in Abuja on Sunday.

According to him, government budgeted N15 billion for Maternal and Child Health Care from the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P).

He added that part of the money would also be used to employ additional 2,000 midwives for the MSS.

Mohammed said the payment plan was designed to assist women to address the demand side constraints of maternal health.

More: http://channelkoos.com/index.php/health/2053-fg-to-pay-pregnant-mothers-n5000-ante-natal-allowance

that would be nice.


hope there's enough money because no be only nigerians go collect am.

which states btw.

tpia@:
that would be nice.


hope there's enough money because no be only nigerians go collect am.

which states btw.

Why are you so interested? I mean, its not as if you are getting pregnant any time soon? You know, you need to get laid first before you can become pregnant . . . and we all know, you aint getting shyt No dyck, no mcloving, nada . . . just some lakiriboto, self obsessed bytch you are

Waste of Money.

Nothing works well in this country.

A government that can not pay pension as at when due. . .now trying to overpopulate the country where there is no job with common #5000.

antitpiah:

Why are you so interested? I mean, its not as if you are getting pregnant any time soon? You know, you need to get laid first before you can become pregnant . . . and we all know, you aint getting shyt No dyck, no mcloving, nada . . . just some lakiriboto, self obsessed bytch you are

Shuoo, you dey beef tpia before?

nice thougt but given the poverty level in the country, the birth rate will just sky rocket and that's not good for any country at this point in time....think of smtn else please.

N5,000 PER MONTH OR FOR WHAT?. Nigerians are not foolish

no wonder they always claim that there is nothing in the treasury when the only thing they can think of is give give and give as if the money is theirs,nothing like empowerment.
Teach them how to fish instead of giving them fish!

more kids free donors

Another avenue to embezzle.just pray this corruption will end one day

Another JEG wrong move. For naija? I hope so because I strongly believe, before the money is credited to the mothers, the baby would have started pre nursery. Besides, some will still collect the money and still die because it cant replace good treatment and care.
Instead, build solid specialist ,modernised, well equiped, hi tech hospitals even far better than fasholas mother and child own, even if it is only one - two in a state, then you will see that motality rate will decrease rapidly.

just an avenue to siphon public funds...wat a shame, no strategy, no plan, just endless expenses...

Another stupid waste of money!

Why not just spend the damn resources on upgrading existing healthcare infrastructure if the concern is to reduce maternal mortality?

People shouldn't be rewarded for scre[i]w[/i]ing their partners.

But i think dem wan implement child birth control...wetin be dis one again?

GPWAN.... Ghost Pregnant Women Association of Nigeria, go start to operate very soon
5*36=180k..
So if the GPWAN collects the money in 36 states every month for 9months, na money o..
But its still good, cos it would really go a long way, for the people that really needs the money...

Just imagine pregnant ladies rioting for their antenatal allowance. Isnt that sexy? Naija government wont stop looting cash. What a new strategy for cash lifting lol.

These plans are good and laudable. Nigerians are not stupid people, we have brains, BUT....our problem has ALWAYS been GOVERNANCE. A game without rules is no longer a game and then even when we know the rules we appoint a REFEREE. This is exactly our problem, NO rule, No Referee. So now that I have looked in my magic ball (actually you don’t need one to predict this, we all know what will happen) let me tell you what I see.......... Fake clinics popping up every where with so called attendance and false list of pregnant women. This is just another ploy so that someone can defraud.

Na wa ooo...this GEJ self

Hope dis will not encourage d poor people in 9ja 2 get pregnant forgetting dat dey will still training d children alone.

This idea is nice. However a check should be put in place on the number of times a particular mother may merit payment to avoid population explosion in the north.

A way of checking the on-going shortfalls caused by Boko haram

This is not adding up at all. Pregnant women are meant to pay N26k+ for ante-natal in University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) a government hospital. If the idea is to encourage attendance to these ante-natal classes and thereby decreasing child mortality rates, how many pregnant woman can afford this kind of money in the first place to be able to qualify for N5k from the govt?

I took my wife to UPTH and you could see the crowd of pregnant women for the ante-natal orientation and half-way thru the class it was mentioned that the total amount to be paid was N26k+, more than 70% of the women just stood up and left! I'm very sure that half of those women will end up in local local midwifery homes. Instead of promising to pay N5k/monthly for attendance, I suggest they knock down the price of ante-natal registration first to say N10k to encourage attendance.

Is 5k every month or just 5k for the 9 month?

This is so wrong. Just doesn`t make sense. This policy will induce poverty stricken people to make more babie i tell you.

Our population is not enough this is another good strategy to explode our population.

Abeg make i call my wife, make will start to fire on again.

OJIGBI! OJIGBI!! OJIGBI!

Seems this govt is not satisfied with naija population yet.what is this strategy aimed at in the long run?

This is a nice avenue to make quick money. Impregnate numerous women countless times x N5000 = and you're a millionaire

Gen. Orumov:
This is a nice avenue to make quick money. Impregnate numerous women countless times x N5000 = and you're a millionaire

You want to run yourself fast fast. If FG fails to continue with the payment or the program scrapped you will have to donate the pregnancy & pikkins to NGOs

Application are invited from suitable qualified girls for immediate pregmancy in my aparment. N3k for the girl N2k for me monthly. Only 200 slots available. Apply now. Time waits for nobody. Opportunity come but once! Call 080pregnancy-allowance now.

This is not fair!!!!.
No provisions were made for pot-bellied men!!!.
They are also pregnant too!!!............
Wiv beer and food, I guess!!!!
Pot-bellied men, Occupy Ministry of Health!!!!

I thought there was going to be a law to limit the number of children born by parents? Now the same government wants to encourage child birth! Mtscheeew! I tire for this country!