Health officials in Kaduna State, under the Maternal and Peri-Natal Deaths Surveillance and Responses (MPDSR), have said that the state recorded about 123 maternal deaths out of 10,453 deliveries in 30 secondary and tertiary facilities between January and June this year.

With about 4,730,000 women of reproductive age living in Lagos, and the nation's high maternal mortality, the state government has developed a 4-year family planning cost implementation plan (CIP) aimed at averting 103,000 infant death and save 8,000 maternal lives by 2018.

Zikirullahi noted that a recent Maternal Mortality Ratios (MMR) from various studies show that the figures for Kano State are way higher than the averages at the national and geo-political zonal levels.