{"id":987654169,"date":"2021-03-22T03:21:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T02:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/free-healthcare-for-pregnant-women-will-cost-7-billion-in-2021\/"},"modified":"2023-10-05T05:16:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T04:16:19","slug":"free-healthcare-for-pregnant-women-will-cost-7-billion-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/free-healthcare-for-pregnant-women-will-cost-7-billion-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Free healthcare for pregnant women will cost 7 billion in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Togolese government has announced that in 2021, the initiative will cost Togo more than 07 billion CFA francs. A clear commitment to improving physical conditions for pregnant women and newborns.<\/p>\n<p>The implementation of the &#8220;Sant\u00e9 maternelle et n\u00e9onatale Muskoka&#8221; project since 2011 &nbsp;bears witness to this commitment on the part of the Togolese authorities. It reduces maternal, neonatal and infant mortality&nbsp;; ensures easy access to medicines and care for mothers, newborns, children and adolescents; strengthens early childhood development&nbsp;etc. The project reduced neonatal mortality by 37% and infant mortality (under 05) by 52%, between 1990 and 2018. Over the same period, the rate of births attended by qualified personnel increased by 11%. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.manationtogo.com\/togo-la-gratuite-des-soins-pour-les-femmes-enceintes-va-couter-7-milliards-de-fcfa-a-letat-en-2021\/\">source<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p>The implementation of this program will complement the measure to subsidize caesarean sections by almost 90%, the cost of which was estimated at 80&nbsp;000 FCFA in 2011, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/partenariatouaga.org\/7-milliards-fcfa-pour-une-prise-en-charge-gratuite-de-la-femme-enceinte-en-2021\/#:~:text=Multim%C3%A9dias-,7%20milliards%20FCFA%20pour%20une%20prise%20en%20charge%20gratuite%20de,la%20femme%20enceinte%20au%20Togo.\">NGO <\/a>involved&nbsp;in access to healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Togolese government has announced that in 2021, the initiative will cost Togo more than 07 billion CFA francs. A clear commitment to improving physical conditions for pregnant women and newborns. The implementation of the &#8220;Sant\u00e9 maternelle et n\u00e9onatale Muskoka&#8221; project since 2011 &nbsp;bears witness to this commitment on the part of the Togolese authorities&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1633,"featured_media":987531152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[131,135],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987654169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987654169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987654169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987654179,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987654169\/revisions\/987654179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987531152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987654169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987654169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987654169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}