Journalists Converge in Lokoja to Brainstorm on How to Curb Death From Tetanus

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Media practitioners drawn from 12 states of the federation have mapped out strategies that would contribute to the elimination of Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus (MNT) deaths in the country.

The newsmen who comprised both electronic and print media had converged in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital on a one-day workshop organised by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) for the 2014 non-polio supplemental immunisation activities.

Participants had observed the need to reduce tetanus deaths among children and other vulnerable group which in the estimation of the World Health Organisation (WHO) kills one newborn in every nine minutes in a day.

The health body in its 1998 estimation stated that about 787, 000 newborn children died of neonatal tetanus and that Nigeria which is yet to eliminate the disease.

The media people who spoke one after the other believed that if they support the strategies for campaign as outlined by the NPHCDA and its partners, the lives of no less than 62 percent of Nigerian women who deliver their babies at unskilled health services would be saved.

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