Infant and maternal mortality in Damaturu

Abstract

INFANT AND MARTERNAL MORTALITY RATE IN DAMATURU

Presented by

Umar Adam Liman1 Yahaya Umar Mohammed2 Sadiq Abdullahi3

1 and 2 Department of General Studies, The Federal Polytechnic Damaturu, Yobe state.

3 Department of Language and liberal Studies, Federal Polytechnic Monguno, Borno state.

ABSTRACT

This paper sheds light on the infant and maternal mortality rate in Damaturu, the Yobe state capital. It has been observed that some psychosocial factors like attitude, illiteracy and economic status of couples contributes highly to infant and maternal mortality and the contribution of the couples towards the aforementioned factors. The method used for data collection was self-administered questionnaire which shows 79.7% of the respondents agreed that attitudes of the couples contributes to the case while 20.3% disagreed, 88.7% agreed that economic status of the couples contributed to infant and maternal mortality rate while 11.3% disagreed, 90% of the respondents agreed that illiteracy contributed to the case while 10% disagreed. 59.1% of the respondents are undecided about whether Government and NGO’s awareness campaign can reduce its surge, 31.2% disagreed while 9.7% agreed. Lastly it is recommended that the following should be prioritized: community health education programs, accessibility to health facilities, continuing education in safe delivery, safe motherhood initiative programs, planning services and health education should be emphasize in the factors responsible for infant and maternal mortality rate and how it can be prevented. 

KEY WORDS: infant, maternal, mortality,

health