Child marriage: We must stop getting our young girls pregnant
By SOLA OGUNDIPE AT 13, Hafsat Auwalu was married. At 14, she became pregnant. When it was time for her to be delivered of her baby, Hafsat was taken to the nearby primary healthcare facility where she laboured for hours, but the baby would not come out. There was a problem. Hafsat is frail in stature with a small pelvis. Her pelvis was too narrow for the head of the baby to pass through. She pushed and pushed, but the baby’s head was lodged in the narrow birth canal. The pain was excruciating. [caption id="attachment_405891" align="alignnone" width="412"] Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Zainab Maina, Executive Secretary of Women Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative, Mrs. Saudatu Mahdi and Mrs. Felicia Onibon from Change Managers International Network, addressing newsmen on constitutional amendment by the Senate [/caption] There was nothing the birth attendants could do. There was no doctor on call and no one in attendan...