The Minister Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole has said that Federal Ministry of Health would continue to meet all its financial obligations towards the provision of family planning commodities in the country despite the economic challenges.
 
The Minister made this known  while declaring open the 4th Nigeria Family Planning Conference 2016 in Abuja, organized by the Federal Ministry of Health in collaboration with Association of the Advancement of Family Planning (AAFP) and Development Partners.
 

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has advised state Commissioners for Health in the South West to use the $1.5 million “Save One Million Lives” fund to revitalise primary healthcare facilities.
 
Adewole gave the advice on Friday in Lagos at an awareness meeting on the pperationalisation of the recently launched “Save One Million Lives Programme for Results” in the zone.
 
The meeting was organised for Commissioners for Health in Lagos, Ekiti, Osun, Ondo, Ogun, Kwara and Oyo States.
 

Ceaseless accolades have continued to trail the newly-renovated and equipped maternal wards donated to four hospitals in Cross River State by MTN Foundation as part of efforts aimed at complementing the national objective of reducing maternal and infant mortality in Nigeria.
 
Pregnant women and mothers were particularly excited and grateful for this gesture because of the potential for reduction of high maternal mortality rates recorded nationally.
 

Almost 18,000 of the 40,000 Nigerian women who die of pregnancy-related causes yearly could be saved if women who need family planning had access.
 
Many of the 241,000 newborn deaths would also be averted, said renowned Nigerian obstetrician and gynaecologist, Prof. Emmanuel Otolorin during the MamaYe Media Roundtable on Family Planning and Maternal Health in Abuja on 20 October 2016.