A Call to Save Mothers and Children in the Bijim Community

A Call to Save Mothers and Children in the Bijim Community
In the Bijim Community of Nigeria, childbirth is still a life-threatening journey for many women. For years, the community has lived without a functional and well-equipped health facility. As a result, preventable deaths during pregnancy and childbirth have become a painful reality.
Maryam, a young woman from Bijim, went into labor late one night. With no health center in the community and no trained midwife available, she labored at home. Complications developed, and by the time her family secured transport to a distant hospital, precious hours had been lost. Maryam did not survive, and neither did her baby. Her death was not due to a rare medical condition, but to the absence of timely and adequate healthcare.
Stories like Maryam’s are common in Bijim. Many women give birth at home under unsafe conditions. Children who survive delivery often lack access to immunization, treatment for infections, and proper postnatal care. During emergencies, families must travel long distances on poor roads, often at night or during the rainy season, when transport is unavailable or unaffordable.
A properly equipped health facility in Bijim would save lives. Skilled birth attendants, clean delivery rooms, essential drugs, and basic emergency care would significantly reduce maternal and child mortality. Such a facility would also serve as a center for health education, disease prevention, and routine care for children, pregnant women, and the elderly.
Supporting the establishment of a health facility in the Bijim Community is an investment in life, dignity, and the future. With your partnership, mothers will survive childbirth, children will grow healthy, and the community will move from fear to hope.