Lagos Governor Sanwo-Olu Suspends Implementation Of Abortion Guidelines

The Lagos Assert Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Thursday, July 7, suspended the implementation of the “Assert Pointers on Trusty Termination of Being pregnant for Upright Indications”.

The guiding precept became once issued by the Directorate of Family Health and Food regimen in the Ministry of Health.

Alternatively, Sanwo-Olu stated in an announcement that the modern tricks wouldn’t be implemented till adequate deliberation.

This became once contained in an announcement by the Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, titled, “Retraction on tricks referring to to stable termination of being pregnant for medical causes in Lagos Assert”.

The assertion be taught: “Amongst the several factors that make a contribution to maternal mortality, unlawful abortions and high-chance pregnancies main to unresolvable complications obnoxious high.

“The Lagos Assert Ministry of Health is seeking varied how you would possibly want to perhaps perhaps also place away with unlawful abortions and make sure a mother does no longer die at childbirth, thereby disrupting a complete family unit.

“In this regard, it grew to change into imperative to respect, per existing National and Assert approved tricks and policies, if there are indeed justifications and medical causes to present abortion to a lady whose lifestyles is threatened by a being pregnant.

“Following this, the guiding precept became once developed over four years thru painstaking work by consultants in Regulations and in Obstetrics and Gynaecology with a spotlight on rising the chance to diminish maternal mortality and per existing approved tricks.

“These tricks bear generated mountainous public curiosity which has necessitated escalating it to Mr Governor, who has suggested further sensitization of the final public and key stakeholders to make certain a clearer belief of the objectives of the tricks.

“To this terminate, we’re suspending the implementation of these tricks in the intervening time for the Govt Council to deliberate on this subject and be sure adequate public sensitization and stakeholder engagement to achieve a consensus required for winning guiding precept trend.

“The Lagos Assert Ministry of Health remains dedicated to planning, devising, and enforcing policies that promote qualitative, more cost effective, and equitable healthcare companies and products to the citizenry.”