Adenike Adebola Olaniyi
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Title: Implementation of Helping Babies Breathe in rural South West Nigeria: an assessment of knowledge and skill
Biography
Biography: Adenike Adebola Olaniyi
Abstract
Deficient resuscitation influences significantly neonatal mortality globally. Effective neonatal resuscitation has the potential to prevent perinatal mortalities related to birth asphyxia.
Nigeria has one of the highest neonatal mortality rates in the world, and neonatal resuscitation training was not targeted to the correct health provider (World Bank 2015). As a result of this, problems related to asphyxia related death occur in newborns (Uwakah & Merritt 2016). According to the UNICEF report of 2018, it was reported that neonatal mortality rate per 1000 live birth in 2017 for Nigeria was 33%, and 27% in Sub-Saharan Africa (United Nations 2018). In Nigeria, Community Health Extension Workers, Traditional Birth Attendants, and other birth attendants assist in the majority of births more often than doctors in rural and community PHCs (Uwakah & Merritt 2016). Therefore, there is a need to fill the practice gap and empower health workers by putting in efforts to focus on this disparity of birth asphyxia and its connection to reduced skill provided.