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Babatunde Osotimehin, UN Under-Secretary-General and the Executive Director of UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has said that it is no longer acceptable for a woman to die during childbirth.<\/p>\n

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Osotimehin said this in an interview with a correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines of an award dinner organized by the Nigeria Health Foundation in Newark, U.S.<\/p>\n

The UNFPA chief said people should insist that both local and state governments must deliver healthcare to them.<\/p>\n

According to him, if people fail to hold government accountable as far as healthcare is concerned the nation\u2019s health problems will \u00a0continue to persist.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the present job I have, it is very painful for me that I would hear and I would see women die during childbirth, as minister and as a doctor.\u201cI have seen women die needlessly because they don\u2019t have care and because they don\u2019t get care.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo a woman who is in labour goes into a care centre and she bleeds to death. This is totally unacceptable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are things that in present day world must not occur at all. These are not things we cannot prevent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot and should not ever leave everything to the hands of the government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Osotimehin, who was a one-time Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Health, regretted that government had become disconnected from the people and urged well-meaning individuals and organizations to come to governments\u2019 aid.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must take charge of our lives and of our people and I want us to all go back to our communities; make sure that we connect with our people.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must make sure we hold our state and local government accountable to deliver care to our people so that at the end of the day, each one of them will have what they deserve in terms of healthcare.\u201d<\/p>\n

He pointed out that in Rwanda, the rate of maternal mortality had been drastically reduced, urging other African countries to learn from the country\u2019s healthcare system.<\/p>\n

\u201cRwanda is one country that met most of the Millennium Development Goals. You know why? Because of accountability.<\/p>

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\u201cIf a woman dies in labour in Rwanda, the doctor who is attending to that woman is obliged to send a text to the Minister of Health the moment she dies.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you must send the text and tell the minister why the woman dies. That\u2019s not all, they would investigate it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they find that you were negligent, then they must punish you because life is not something we play with; life is what we all doctors are trained to preserve and to save.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe lose patients not because we want to lose them but if you lose a patient because you are careless, then you must be punished,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to him, people must be accountable in whatever they do, whether in the health or any other profession.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccountability must be the watchword for all of us in the practice. Accountability in health is what must be there for everybody. There\u2019s no reason why you cannot be accountable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no reason why a nurse should not be at work. There\u2019s no reason why a doctor should not be at work.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no reason why a pharmacist should not be there. There\u2019s no reason why drugs should not be available.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no reason why a child should die of malaria or a woman should die giving birth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are things that in today\u2019s world and in today\u2019s Nigeria, we can look at them and be sure that we accomplish.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd to say we must go beyond that; we must also make each one of us accountable for what we do in practice, in medicine and in every sphere of our lives,\u201d Osotimehin said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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