Maternal Mortality: Nigerian experts applaud as IPPF launches free online medical abortion course

October 14, 2022
By Sola Ogundipe

Top Nigerian medical experts have applauded the launch of a free online medical abortion training course by the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), aimed at stemming the tide of unsafe abortion and its complications globally.

Welcoming the development, the experts said the course which is specifically designed to equip healthcare workers with the necessary skills to provide care for women seeking medical abortion up to 13 weeks gestation,  would go a long way in correcting the misinterpretation and misconception about safe abortion, legal abortion, medical abortion, and allied issues.

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Nigeria – Women deserve better reproductive experience, says prof

Women deserve better reproductive experience, says prof

By Tobi Awodipe
02 November 2019

Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo while delivering a lecture at the National Women’s Conference of Committee of Wife of Lagos State Officials (COWLSO) with the theme, ‘Unlearn, Learn and Relearn: 21st Century Women’s THEMES Perspectives and Approach’, during the week, reiterated that women deserve better reproductive experience.

The Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology while presenting his lecture titled ‘Maternal and Neonatal Mortality’, at the event, stated that pregnancy bleeding, hypertensive disorders, unsafe abortion, obstructed labor/ruptured uterus and infections are the major causes of maternal mortality.

Continued: https://guardian.ng/news/women-deserve-better-reproductive-experience-says-prof/