Kaduna State government has recorded 28.3 per cent increase in facility delivery after the adoption of Group Antenatal Care intervention project.

It also recorded 148 per cent increase post-partum family planning by mothers, who took up family planning after delivery.

The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Amina Mohammed-Baloni, made this known during the factsheet presentation by Centre for Integrated Health Programmes (CHIP), a non-governmental organisation saddled with implementing Group Antenatal Care (G-ANC) Project on Kaduna.

The intervention, The Guardian gathered, was aimed at helping in the fight maternal mortality by improving the number pregnant women that visit healthcare facilities for antenatal care.

Baloni said over 309,751 pregnant women were enrolled in the G-ANC intervention in 23,220 cohorts in Kaduna and that the proportion of women, who booked at gestation age, which used to be less than 20 weeks, rose from 11 per cent to 30 per cent. She added that women completing ANC increased from 26 per cent to 44 per cent.