Ogun State government has launched a campaign towards preventing pre-eclampsia diseases among pregnant women across the state. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Olaokun Soyinka, said the state government designed the programme to increase the knowledge and understanding of pregnant women in the community on measures to be taken in guiding against pre-eclampsia. According to the commissioner, pre-eclampsia is a large rise in blood pressure and failing kidneys. He added that it was an obstetric condition that occurs after 20 weeks of pregnancy in a woman, which is characterised by high blood pressure, saying that it was one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in Nigeria. “The state government would leave no stone unturned at providing good and qualitative health care delivery to the people of Ogun State, not only at preventing clip but in every other aspects of health issues in the state” Soyinka said. The chairman Local Government Service Commission, Alhaji Olatunde Okewole, pointed out that the disease kills at least, a pregnant woman at every 11 hours of the day, saying that pregnant woman with pre-eclampsia experiences body system damage such as kidney failure, lung disorder, high blood pressure among others. Also speaking, Professor Peter Von of PI Pre-Empt University of British Columbia, Van Couver, Canada, said over 287 out of 100,000 pregnant women died through the diseases, saying that pre-eclampsia symptoms does not stop at low or high blood pressure alone but could also cause hypertension and paralysis of half of the body system
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 05:20:50 +0000
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