The wife of the Kebbi State Governor, Dr. Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu at the weekend disclosed that Nigeria was ranked third among 10 top countries with high rate of preterm birth of 773,600.
Bagudu disclosed this in Abuja when the National Association of Nigerian Paediatric Nurses (NANPAN) paid advocacy visit on her, thereby attributing the statistics to the latest data from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), preterm birth also know as premature birth is the birth of baby at fewer than 37 weeks gestational age.
She frowned at the rating, lamenting that a lot of preterm related death often occurred due to lack of sophisticated equipment that would ensure proper care for the babies.
She however noted that it was important and high time for the nation to rise up to its responsibilities by coming up…
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