By Victoria Hanson Lagos State House of Assembly is committed to addressing maternal mortality rate in the state, Rt Hon Mudashiru Obasa has said.
Consequently, he has urged the public to relate information on any health centre not performing well to the Assembly.
The speaker made this pledge while addressing a group of protesters named “Woman Advocate Research and Documentation Centres (WARDC) who protested against the increase in maternal mortality incident in the state hospitals at the assembly complex.
Obasa also promised to invite those connected with one of the incidents at Rauf Aregbesola health centre in Mosan Okunola local council development area in Alimosho were a woman and her child died after childbirth.
The coordinator of the group Dr. Abiola Alayode in her address said WARDC is compelled to submit a petition to the state Assembly in a view of continued instance of maternal death in the state hospitals.
She said ” our findings have shown that despite the government effort towards the reduction of maternal health in the state, women still experience financial, infrastructural and institutional barriers in accessing adequate maternal health care.
She lamented the increase in the fee paid for antenatal care from other fees seven thousand naira to eighteen thousand naira, apart from other fees which women are subjected to pay in the hospital.
Also speaking during the protest, Mr Ayo Shonuga whose wife died alongside her baby after giving birth at Rauf Aregbesola health centre in Mosan Okunola local council Development Area in Alimosho on October 26 2015, complained about the non CHALLANT attitude of health officials on that fateful day.
Another victim, Mr Oduyoye also lamented how his wife died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) after she was detained for three months for failure to pay hospital bills.
