The General Manager Ibadan Central Hospital (ICH) Olajumoke Caxton-Martins, has charged governments in Nigeria to establish more primary health care centers and equip them.
Caxton-Martins made the charge Tuesday at the second phase of the maternal health gathering, organised for 500 pregnant women by ICH management to commemorate the hospital’s 25th anniversary at the Old Ife Road area of Ibadan.
She stated that,” at the national level, this is where care of the grassroots department is more important. The truth is that the elite, the educated ones know they have to go to the hospital.
“At the national level, this is where care of the grassroots department is more important. The truth is that the elite, the educated ones know they have to go to the hospital, but at the grassroots level, the rural people they are still patronising traditional birth attendants and going to mission houses to have babies,” she said.
He added, “What happens here is that there is no adequate medical care. They do not understand when labour is obstructed and they need to get the right type of medical care.
“So what the government needs to be doing is in the first place getting these traditional birth attendants and educating them, giving them basic education on how to cater for these people who will still go to them.”
