Nigeria accounts for 10 per cent of global maternal deaths

The Executive Director of the National Primary Health-Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Ado Mohammed, on Thursday in Kaduna said that Nigeria accounted for 10 per cent of global maternal deaths.

Mohammed made the disclosure when a delegation of Northern Traditional Leaders Committee on Primary Health Care Delivery (NTLC), paid a courtesy visit on Gov. Mukhtar Yero of Kaduna State.

The NTLC later converged for a meeting on polio eradication in the state.

``Nigeria is one of the countries, having the highest burdens of maternal mortality. Nigeria does not account for up to 10 per cent of the global population.

`` We only account for about two per cent of the global population but we account for about 10 per cent of the global burden on maternal mortality.

Information from NAN was used in this report.