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The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Ebonyi State University Teaching Hospital (EBSUTH), Dr. Onyebuchi Chukwu has said that Ebonyi is the only state in the federation that is running comprehensive free maternal healthcare service. Dr. Chukwu said that expectant mothers receive free medical service in government owned hospitals in the ...
Read Story at ThisDay (2003-11-30)
By Tom Gwebayanga Expectant mothers who visit health centres in Kamuli and Pallisa districts for antenatal care will be paid sh5,000 for transport from October. The project, funded by the UK’s Department for International Development and the Melinda Gates Foundation, will be implemented by Future Health Services, an ...
Read Story at The New Vision (2009-08-26)
Free health care for SL"s moms, kids FREETOWN – Sierra Leone"s President Ernest Bai Koroma said his government will provide free health care to mothers and children in the West African nation which suffers from high rates of maternal and child mortality. UN urges refugees to return homeLUSAKA – ...
Read Story at The Namibian (2010-04-29)
Millions of children whose mothers live with HIV/Aids are not receiving enough long-term care and support, says a new UK charity report. Up to nine million children in Africa have lost their mothers to HIV/Aids, Save the Children found. The charity called for new efforts to improve care ...
Read Story at BBC News (2006-03-20)
Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd), has said that Global Fund has committed US $130 million for the eradication of malaria in Nigeria, noting that malaria is the most devastating disease in the country and has killed millions of child expectant mothers.Speaking to journalists in Abakaliki, Ebonyi state ...
Read Story at ThisDay (2006-05-01)
A new policy of free medical care for Burundian mothers and children was intended to improve their lives; instead it has cripple the nation's health system.Public hospitals in Burundi have recorded double, sometimes triple, the number of patients since a presidential directive for free paediatric and maternal health services was ...
Read Story at IRINNews (2006-06-17)
A new policy of free medical care for Burundian mothers and children was intended to improve their lives; instead it has cripple the nation's health system.Public hospitals in Burundi have recorded double, sometimes triple, the number of patients since a presidential directive for free paediatric and maternal health services was ...
Read Story at IRINNews (2006-06-09)
Few pregnant mothers in Botswana are accessing free HIV/AIDS related services, including free antiretrovirals being provided by the state, says a recent study.The survey of 504 women at ante-natal clinics and in post-natal wards countrywide, revealed that although 95 percent were accessing the health care provided at these facilities, the ...
Read Story at IRINNews (2004-03-23)
As international donors announce more funding for a campaign to build free health-care systems in the developing world, the BBC"s Prime Ndikumagenge reflects on the experience of Burundi, which has already benefited from the scheme.It has been three years since children under five years of age and new mothers in ...
Read Story at BBC News (2009-09-23)
The defaulters included expectant mothers who had been admitted to deliver, prisoners, and the destitute. The hospital’s director, Dr. Darius Osei-Kofi, told the GNA at Cape Coast on Monday, that the situation was affecting the smooth operation of the hospital. He explained that as a referral hospital, no ...
Read Story at The Ghanian Chronicle (2003-10-17)
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