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Bauchi State Government has revealed the cause of the mysterious deaths in Azare and other local government areas in the northern part of the state.
After an investigation carried out by the Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, it was discovered that illegal abortion by unqualified medical practitioners was responsible for the deaths.
The Executive Chairman of the agency, Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, made the disclosure on Friday, at an interactive session organized by the Bauchi State Public Health Media Network.
Mohammed said the investigation had not been concluded on the development, but preliminary findings had revealed that the number of such deaths was about 200, adding that the number could be more at the end of the investigation.
He said the deaths resulted from unwanted and unplanned pregnancies by both married and unmarried women of childbearing ages who, after becoming pregnant, visited quack health workers to terminate the pregnancies.
The executive chairman of the state health agency also lamented that the lack of understanding of the importance of child spacing as well as ignorance of what to do with such pregnancies had become a major problem to family health in the state.
He further stressed the need for adequate sex education for the girl-child by parents, particularly mothers, to reduce unwanted pregnancies, thereby reducing deaths from complications.
