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Desire For Male Child Causing Maternal Morbidity, Mortality

In Nigeria, quest for male child has resulted in multiple un-spaced pregnancies.
This is one of the reasons why many women are dying during childbirth and lots more developing health problems. Male child preference has given rise to violence against women and girls.

According to EU-UN Spotlight Initiative, discrimination of the girl child is a crime and should be stopped.

After five un-spaced pregnancies and childbirth, all using Caesarian Section (CS), Ngozi Egbu, 35-year-old, still got pregnant again because she is looking for a male child.

During her sixth pregnancy, Ngozi developed complications at the 7th month of the pregnancy