PRESS RELEASE

Plans are underway to overhaul the curriculum of the Ondo State College of Health Technology to make the institution abreast of modern day challenges in the sector.

The Commissioner of Health, Dr Dayo Adeyanju made this known at the maiden orientation/registration ceremony of 2011 medical technicians’ graduates of the college.

According to the Commissioner, government is working on the institution curricular to enable students get the best and update knowledge needed to thrive in their profession.

Dr Adeyanju congratulated the students on the maiden feat and urged them to bring to bear on profession, knowledge acquired from the college.

PREGNANT WOMEN FLOOD ONDO MOTHER AND CHILD HOSPITAL, minutes after commissioning

The newly commissioned Mother and Child Hospital in Ondo town has become swamped with hundreds of pregnant women trooping to the state-of-the-art medical complex to take advantage of its world acclaimed facilities and services.

Reports indicated that the hospital, which is the second of its type after the one in Akure, actually started taking in pregnant women from Ondo towns and communities even before its official commissioning on Friday 30^th November, 2012, as the first baby was recorded few hours before Governor Mimiko formally declared it open.

The baby girl was delivered by Mrs Abigail Akinmolayan at the hospital at about 10:00am few hours before the formal inauguration of the medical complex said to be the bigger of the two operational ones in the state.

MOTHER AND CHILD HOSPITAL, ONDO, ANOTHER FRESH BREATH ON THE HORIZON…

Available statistics today indicate that 54,000 Nigeria women die yearly of complications arising from complications and child birth. According to the report, maternal deaths in Nigeria stand at 800 per 100,000.

In addition to this is the fact that 191 children currently die in every 1000 births – one of the worst child survival rates in the world.

This perhaps explains why Nigeria is also ranked 19^th from the rear among 145 countries with highest infant mortality rates, as 900 in 10,000 children die under age one representing about 10% of the 5.2 million babes being born annually in the country.

Investigation revealed that four major factors which aid maternal mortality are severe bleeding, infections, hypertensive disorders and obstructed labour.