Reduction in the number of under five mortality rate from 201 per live birth in 2003 to 132 in 2018 in Nigeria has not met the sustainable development goal, SDG target of 12 per one thousand live birth.
National population commission, NPC, Commissioner, Dr Eyitayo Oyetunji made this known during a virtual workshop on the “dissemination of the 2019 verbal and social autopsy, VASA, study report.
Vasa survey is study by the NPC that seeks to ascertain the causes and determinants of under five mortality in Nigeria between 2013 to 2018.
According to the VASA report, southwest Nigeria has the least in child mortality rate of twenty per one thousand live birth while the Northwest has the highest figure with one hundred and seventeen.
Dr. Oyetunji who stressed the need for policy makers and stakeholders in the health sector to do more on further decline of the menace said the report will serve as guide for effective planning
Dr. Oyetunji said the data will be presented in a simple and user friendly manner to facilitate its utilization by a wide range of stakeholders.
Mosope Kehinde
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