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Chief Medical Director of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Adetokunbo Fabamwo, has lent his voice to a call for declaration of a national emergency in maternal and child mortality.
In his opening address as chairman of the 4th annual lecture of Abimbola Aina Omololu-Mulele Endowment in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, organised by the Office of Advancement, University of Lagos, the renowned professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology said it was a wise choice domiciling endowment in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
The decision, he said, must mean that the donor had insight into many unresolved issues in the speciality. He expressed his wish that more high net-worth Nigerians should be more altruistic about the management of their fortune by investing it into purposeful use, even while alive.
He said academic endowment fund, such as the Abimbola Aina Omololu-Mulele, is a gesture that would definitely go a long way in advancing the frontiers of qualitative education as well as a meeting of town and gown.
The CMD described the day’s discourse, “Fostering Research and Innovation in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Women’s Health,” as appropriate and contemporary as it centres around women’s health.
“Women’s health should be seen as a critical contributor to the national economy but unfortunately, indicators and data currently available clearly show there is a lot more that needs to be done regarding that in Nigeria,” he said.
He made an urgent call for meaningful and impactful interventions that would remove Nigeria as the world capital for maternal deaths.
Guest Speaker and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Reproductive Health, University of Benin, Edo State, Friday Okonofua, said there was no doubt that major challenges in obstetrics and gynaecology and women’s health were critical to Nigeria’s future development and so, research and innovations embarked upon would be one of the strong ways to promote excellence and achieve further progress in the promotion of women’s health and social well-being in the country.
