According to Mr. Bioye Ogunjobi, the specialist for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene at UNICEF maternal deaths are caused by unhygenic delivery practice and processes at delivery health care centers nationwide. Speaking at a national stakeholders’ workshop on ‘Draft Hygiene Promotion Strategy and Guidelines’ in Abuja. He said the effective provision of wash facilities will go a long way to promote safe health care.
He said:
"For a PHC to work well, they must have a good source of water, safe excreta disposal, drainage, hospital waste and hygiene promotion facilities. with effective hygiene promotion 50 per cent transmission of water and excreta- related diseases would be reduced to the barest minimum.
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