ABUJA, May 8 (MENA) - Nigeria's Kwara government, in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has trained 60 secondary healthcare providers on Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (CEmONC).

The program is carried out under the European Union’s “Strengthening Access to Reproductive and Adolescent Health (EU-SARAH)” initiative, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported on Thursday.

Speaking on the sidelines of the training in Ilorin city, Lead Facilitator Abiodun Adeniran said the program was a 14-day intensive training for secondary healthcare workers across the 16 local government areas of the state.

He added that the training was expected to reduce the high rate of maternal mortality in the state.

According to him, the healthcare workers are being trained on how to improve the survival rate of the infants as well as the mothers. (MENA)

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