The National Union of Road Transport Workers ( NURTW), Adamawa Chapter, in partnership with Society for Family Health (SFH), says it transported over 10,000 pregnant women to nearby health facilities in the state.
The state Chairman of the union, Alhaji Bello Adamu, disclosed this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yola on Monday.
Adamu said that the introduction of the Emergency Transport Scheme was to ease the hardship been experienced by pregnant women in villages, due to lack of access to health facility during labour.
“From 2015 to date, about 10, 000 pregnant women who were in labour benefited from the Emergency Transport Scheme by transporting them to nearby health facilities.
“Sixteen out of the 21 local government areas of Adamawa are involved in the scheme with two focal persons each,’’ Adamu said.
He explained that under the arrangement, pregnant women especially those in labour in remote areas were transported free of charge to health facilities for safe delivery.
He said under the programme, over 800 volunteer drivers from the state branch of the union were trained in 2016 under the scheme.
The chairman stated that the training was designed to enable the drivers to provide humanitarian services for pregnant women across the 21 local government areas of the state.
The participatory local government areas include Shelleng, Guyuk, Demsa, Numan, Gombi and Girei.
Others are Lamurde, Song, Jada, Yola-South and Hong as well as Fufore, Yola-North, Mayo-Belwa, Toungo and Ganye.
