A new solarised medical oxygen plant and a level 2 newborn unit has been unveiled at a Nigeria hospital as part of a strategy to ensure health care services for mothers and new babies.
The facilities were donated to Jericho Hospital in Ibadan by UNICEF, HIS Towers and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in conjunction with the governments of Canada and Norway.
Country Director of UNICEF in Nigeria, Cristian Munduate and Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State said the facility would ‘significantly reduce’ neonatal mortality rates and improve health outcomes for the country’s youngest and most vulnerable population.
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