The Head of Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH2 Project) a DFID project in the state, Alhaji Yusuf Lawal yesterday during a one day stakeholders meeting on State Basket Funds for Primary Health Care, held at Shukrah Coral, Hotel, Sokoto, organized by Save the Children International said at least nine women dies at Zamfara state General Hospitals. No fewer than nine women lost their lives on monthly basis in the Zamfara state General Hospitals, following death of qualified medical personnel affecting the state. According to the State Team Leader (STL), the data available within the project indicated that the rate of maternal death is utterly up surging in many parts of the state, saying that “In fact there are cases where environmental health workers are conducting caesarean section for pregnant women, which recently resulted into the death of a pregnant woman in one of the primary health care centre under Zurmi Local Council of the state,” Yusuf added. Earlier, the State Commissioner for Health, Honorable Suleman Adamu Gummi said, government is committed towards the recruitment of qualified health workers for deployment to various general hospitals of the state, adding that, already an advertisement for recruitment of health workers was placed in one of the national daily.

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