Despite its recent economic woes, Nigeria still boasts Africa’s highest GDP – but one of the continent’s worst outcomes for pregnant women.
This discrepancy in the inflation-battered but most populous African nation is also worsening. In 2020, about 82,000 Nigerian women died from pregnancy or childbirth-related complications, including severe haemorrhage, sepsis and unsafe abortions. That number might be “a slight improvement” on the previous year, but it’s a marked increase on previous decades, said The Guardian.
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