Toyin Ojora-Saraki, Wellbeing Foundation Africa Founder and wife of Nigeria’s Senate

president, has congratulated the latest health workers who have successfully completed the Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care, EmONC, education course in Kwara. The course is provided

jointly by the Wellbeing Foundation Africa and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

In a statement welcoming the successful graduands of the EmONC training of doctors, nurses, midwives and other medical professionals at Omu Aran

General Hospital, Irepodun Local government area, LGA, Saraki said: ” I am greatly encouraged by the lives saved through the EmONC training. Innovative  training of this kind directly saves lives of mothers and newborns and  also helps us to attain a demographic dividend in the region and  country.”

“Since we chose to harness resources and techniques towards making  Kwara State a flagship of excellence in implementing global health  innovation in Nigeria, the results are evident –  an increased  preparedness of medical workers to predict and provide care for mothers,  reinforced by improved data surveillance towards beneficial  childbirth outcomes, and a clear drop in mortality  rates in line withsustainable development goals targets,” she said.

—  Jul 20, 2017 @ 12:50 GMT