 Stakeholders say some of the leading causes of maternal new born mortalities in Nigeria are ignorance and late anti-natal care for pregnant women. This was revealed in Asaba, the Social Mobilization Committee meeting for forthcoming maternal newborn health week in Delta State by the Permanent Secretary, Delta State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Winfo Orenka. The purpose of the meeting is to mobilize Delta and to take advantage of the one week free medical service by the government through primary health care centers. From the 23rd to the 29th of June 2023, the government will deliver a package of basic interventions that are highly effective in reducing child mortality and improving modern child health. The medical care will complement the team of health services by ensuring that healthcare reaches or outreaches reach all nuke and crannies of the state. Vaccines is also expected to be administered and be made available to all persons. It's done twice a year where we actually integrate all our primary care programs to target groups in our various communities. The mothers, the pregnant two men, children below five years of age, even girls, adolescent girls, pregnant two men. So all these groups in the community are taking into consideration with various programs taking to them, various services taking to them to ensure they are healthy. When I say that when the woman is pregnant, enough nutrition should not be compromised at all. When the child is put to bed, exclusive breastfeeding is emphasized up to six months of age and after we should continue breastfeeding up to two years and beyond. If these ones are compromised, the child becomes malnourished and the child will come out either stunting, wasting or underweight. We provide them at the primary care level and so it's one more opportunity for those who most especially we call the Atrix people women and children and that's why you have the program tab maternal newborn child at week. But we also open up expanding the program to embrace other programs so that every member of a family can benefit. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.