Health minister, UNICEF, others urge actions to curb child mortality

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Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Isaac Folorunso Adewole

Health Minister, Prof. Isaac Adewole, on Monday, remarked that the country’s mortality in children Under-Five “is still very unacceptable’’.

In his remarks at the advocacy meeting on reproductive health in Abuja, organised by the office of the wife of the President, the minister stressed the urgency for the government to invest in health as it did in other infrastructure.

He said the administration was focusing attention on the basic health care system and intended to achieve eight million person target in three years.

The minister hailed the initiatives of the Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, on reproductive health and pledged the ministry’s support for the programme.

He urged the wives of governors in the country to partner the wife of the president on the programme.

The UNICEF Country Representative,…

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