The Federal Government has concluded plans to pay women who attend antenatal clinics the sum of N5,000 as part of efforts to battle the menace of high maternal mortality rates
The
South-west Zonal Coordinator of the National Primary Healthcare
Development Agency. Dr 0ladimeji Olayinka, disclosed this at the
training of 180 midwives in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on Tuesday. The
agency, which is under the Federal Ministry of Health, is implementing
the new primary healthcare project under the Subsidy Re-investment and
Empowerment Programme (SURE-P).
It handles several intervention projects for the Federal Government. Olayinka
explained that the agency will pay the amount to every pregnant woman
that registers for antenatal at the primary health centres in four
instalments.
Describing
it as "conditional cash transfer," the zonal coordinator explained that
beneficiaries will receive N1, 000 twice during antenatal, receive N2,
000 at childbirth and another N1, 000 after childbirth to enable them
apply the financial aid at different stages of need including receiving
immunization.
He said the initiative is aimed at helping to improve maternal health and to reduce mortality rate in the country.
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