Agency The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare says it had carried out 1,566 repairs in Bauchi, Ebonyi, Kebbi, and Sokoto states and the Federal Capital Territory in collaboration with the US Agency for International Development. This was disclosed by the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Daju Kachollom, at the end of a project learning and dissemination workshop for USAID-MOMENTUM Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics project, on Tuesday in Abuja. Represented by the Director, Family Health, FMoH, Dr Binyerem Ukaire, she also said that a fistula pricing model has been developed to improve access to services for survivors through the National Health Insurance Scheme.
Kachollom added that the partnership equally ensured access to safe and surgical obstetric care across the project-implementing facilities. She identified some of the services as caesarean delivery and peripartum hysterectomy, obstetric and iatrogenic fistula prevention care, female genital cutting prevention and management, as well as gender-based violence. Kachollom added, “These have contributed to 1,566 fistula repairs feat at the project-supported facilities, including the training of many healthcare workers in surgical obstetrics prevention, treatment of fistula and prevention of female genital cutting.
“This partnership and interventions in these critical areas is saving the lives of women and young girls as well as ensuring their wellbeing.” The Country Project Manager, USAID-MSSFP.
