The Benue State Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Prof. Joseph Ngbea, said on Tuesday that about 2,300 children under the age of five die daily in Nigeria of preventive diseases.
The commissioner also added that no fewer than 145 women of childbearing age die daily in the country of preventive diseases.
Ngbea, shared these statistics while flagging off the first round of Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Week, MNCHW, in Makurdi.
He lamented that “Nigeria has one of the highest death rates in the world among young children and women of childbearing age, and the trend is not improving satisfactorily.”