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By Nigeria Health Watch | December 11, 2018

The Joys of Motherhood: Young midwives enabling safe deliveries in Northern Nigeria

By Bashar Abubakar ‘Delivering a baby is what gives me joy the most’, explains 26-year-old midwife Aliya Lawal Adam as she takes time out to attend to her one-year-old daughter, her third child, outside the delivery room of the Akilu Memorial Hospital, the only Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Unguwar Galadima, Madobi Local Government Area, […]

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