Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has been commended for ameliorating the plight of women and children through the free medical care programme for pregnant women and children under zero to five years of age in the state.
The President, Medical Women Association of Nigeria, Delta State Chapter, Dr. Mrs. E. Umuerri, who is also a Consultant Physician at Delta State University Teaching Hospital, Oghara, gave the commendation while delivering a lecture on the theme: “Dangers associated with women during pregnancy’’.
Dr. Umuerri said that the free medical care programme of the state government had reduced the risk women go through during pregnancy, adding that government had demonstrated its desire to secure the lives of Deltans.
She stated that good feeding during pregnancy would reduce complications during delivery and child mortality as well as other sickness associated with pregnancy, saying that women should always eat food that contain nutritional components.
Dr. Umuerri commended the Seplat Development Company Limited for partnership in ensuring that the programme was successful.
She identified early anti-natal for all pregnant women as a major remedy to the dangers inherent in pregnancy, stressing that it would help discover complications during the early stage of pregnancy.
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