 17 September is marked as World Patient Safe Today. This year, the theme is Safe Maternal and Newborn Care. The Lagos' mother, infant and child initiative, or Midge Initiative, has assisted for two years and is hosting this media pally to have a deep conversation about the security and well-being of pregnant women and their ability to birth healthy babies. The special advisor of the Office of Civic Engagement to the Lagos State Governor, Adere Mea Debowale, explains what Midge is about. What the Midge Programme tends to do is to make sure that our indigent pregnant women are eating well while they are pregnant, not just eating well, making sure they think about what goes into their stomach. Midge supports 50 women in each local government in Lagos State, according to his consultant, Jaffet Ulubugi. The program in each of the LGA, LCDA of Lagos and the women were given food parks, food parks which comprised carbohydrates, protein, vitamins, multivitamins. Agencies like the Lagos State Nutrition Office and private organizations are partnering with the Office of Civic Engagement on the Midge Initiative. We heard about this initiative right from the inception we've been partnering with. I, myself, my unit, nutrition unit, we did the analysis of the food park to see the food contents, the nutrient contents, and to what extent can it take care of. Midge is a great initiative. We're very happy to be part of it and we just employ every other person, every other organization out there if you have not come on board to quickly come on board. But they are criteria of selecting pregnant women for support. The individual must be resident in the particular LTA or LCDA where you intend to benefit from the food parks. The individual must also be registered with LASRA. Maternal and infant mortality are serious issues in Nigeria. We are one in every 123 live births and in the death of the mother, according to 2020 statistics from the World Health Organization, one in every 13 babies born in the country also doesn't make it past the first year. For Plus TV Africa, Ngoziqa, OHHC.