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By Correspondent in Lokoja.
The Medical Director, Federal Medical Centre Lokoja (FMCL), Dr. Olatunde Alabi, has urged governments to invest and sustain support for the activities of various hospitals in the management of premature babies.
Alabi gave the advice on Wednesday in Lokoja at a programne organised by the Neonatology Unit, Department of Paediatrics of the hospital to mark the âWorld Prematurity Day 2021â.
He noted that the unit managing the premature infants at FMCL remained the only standard centre for newborn special care unit in the whole of Kogi State.
He added that the unit had well qualified Consultants and specialised Nurses that effectively managed premature babies, including training and retraining of medical officers.
âSo, if the government can give us more support, it will go a long way because to keep premature infant alive is very expensive.
âWe cannot keep our eyes away from them because these infants are eventually our investment into the future, and we have to take very good care of them,â Alabi said.
Earlier, Dr Patricia Medupin, a Consultant Paediatrics, and head of newborn special care unit in FMCL, said the theme for the 2021 world premature day, is âZero Separation: Act Nowâ.
Medupin said the unit had successfully managed the treatment of premature babies,in spite various challenges over the past years.
She explained that the average survival rate in terms of premature babies at FMCL, over the last five years, was 66.8 per cent while the average mortality was 24.6 per cent.
She noted that the current national mortality rate was 32 per cent, stressing that FMCL was doing a little better than the national rate, despite the challenges.
She emphasised that zero separation was possible, if the necessary facilities were put in place.
In their separate comments, Mrs Blessing Balogun and Mrs Margaret Olorunmosunle, who had premature babies, commended the management of FMCL for the care and support being giving to them and their babies.
The World Prematurity Day is observed on every Nov. 17, to raise awareness about preterm birth.
The highlight of the occasion was the cutting of the cake to celebrate premature babies.
Edited by Dada Ahmed.
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