Nno, Welcome, Ola,

I visited Nigeria in 2006 and was bitten by a bug called High Infant Mortality Rate. I read about the issue in a local news paper in Abuja. This information was buttressed while on holidays in my father's village (Nnewi); an elderly woman informed my cousin and I of 2 infant deaths that Christmas week from childhood preventable illnesses. I was aghast. I sat down, dumfounded, then a flashback of I (as a child), at the end of civil war, women carrying their dying babies of kwashiorkor to my father's compound seeking relief; food, water, medicine anything to help their infants. In 2007 I returned to finish my graduate school in Public Health and my community health class provided a platform to research infant mortality rate. Hence, I wrote a paper on it, and proposed a three year strategic pyramid solution.

This blog is about being part of the solution:
(a) bringing the issue to bear
(b) envisioning seamless integrated strategies
(c) visualizing adapting innovative, sustainable solutions to mitigate variables that give rise to high infant deaths.

At issue is the continent of Africa. Some may say I gave money to Africa, yes you did but in reality you gave money for a project in Mali, or Sierra Leone or Liberia. That is 3 countries out of 50. From my research, high infant morality rate in SSA is attracting international, national and individual researchers seeking effective methods in implementing sustainable measures or solutions towards reversing the numbers. I am suggesting that more man power is needed to combat the problem at least in Nigeria.

http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/MDG_FS_4_EN.pdf



Thursday, November 11, 2010

Kaizen approach in solving high infant mortality rate in Nigeria, SSA

Thanks April for noticing and mentioning Kaizen philosophy.  Because when I call upon the global village  to take note of infants dying needless deaths in SSA especially Nigeria, and help reverse the dying numbers, I am not singing a new mantra song.  Kaizen is all about collective culture, values, vision, approach of working together to solve problems with innovative ideas,  room to fail, no fear, no perfection but room for refinement and improvement. Thus my vision of evoking the "Global Village". Japan has been very successful in manufacturing with this philosophy.  Furthermore for all the so called third world or developing countries who have achieved some semblance of modernity be it Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore or Malaysia, the West have heavily invested in those countries to assist them in feeding their citizens and solving their problems.  So why not invest in SSA countries? As president Obama said in Indonesia earlier this week, the United States believes in Human Progress, I couldn't agree with him more, I believe more in Human Progress to the point of helping to stop infants from dying needlessly, since they are our future.
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