The Role of a Transport Union in Increasing Rural Women’s Access to Emergency Maternal Care in Northern Nigeria

This paper describes an emergency transport initiative in rural northern Nigeria which aims to save the lives of women affected by maternal complications. The Emergency Transport Scheme (ETS), implemented by the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), is a public-private partnership supported by the UKAid and Norwegian Government funded Programme for Reviving Routine Immunization in Northern Nigeria and the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Initiative (PRRINN-MNCH). The scheme is providing a culturally appropriate, affordable, and timely solution to the severe physical access barriers faced by numerous pregnant rural women who need to be transferred promptly to a health facility. Many maternal deaths have been averted in the two and half years since the scheme’s establishment. The scheme has excellent prospects for being sustained at community level. If current efforts to deepen the institutional ownership of the ETS are successful, there is enormous scope for scaling up the initiative at national level in future. This paper looks at the achievements and challenges faced by the ETS so far and considers the steps that are needed to secure the scheme’s future.

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  http://www.eco-logica.co.uk/pdf/wtpp19.2.pdf
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• Authors:
  • Green, Cathy
  • Adamu, Fatima
  • Rahman, Idris Abdul
• Publication Date: 2013-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 29-45
• Serial:
  • World Transport Policy & Practice
  • Volume: 19
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Eco-Logica Limited
  • ISSN: 1352-7614
  • Serial URL: http://worldtransportjournal.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Emergency medical services; Emergency transportation; Emergency trips; Health care services; Medical trips; Pregnant women; Public policy; Rural transportation; Transportation disadvantaged persons
• Geographic Terms: Nigeria
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01484147
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 17 2013 12:42PM