Nigeria: Reducing Maternal Mortality in Nigeria – the SHI Response

In 2016, Dr. Oluwakemisola Agoyi and Dr. Roland Ojo witnessed the benefits and drawbacks of traditional and community-based birth attendants (TBAs and CBAs) in delivering infants in rural and urban communities across Nigeria.

During their community immersion programme as medical students at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Dr Agoyi recounted, “A 26-year-old lady was brought in who delivered by a TBA in Mushin, Lagos state and she already had puerperal sepsis which is something you…