A two months data collection for the twenty nineteen Verbal and Social Autopsy (VASA) survey has commenced in Bauchi state.
The VASA survey which is a research study that seeks to obtain data on causes and contributory factors to deaths in children aged zero to five years was organized by National Pupolation Commission in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health and supported by USAID.
The Acting Chairman National Population Commission Barr Bimbola Salu-hundeyin who gave the indication while briefing newsmen in Bauchi said objectives of the survey includes provision of up-to-date information on early childhood mortality.
Others are estimation of the prevalence and determination of cultural, social and health factors of neonatal deaths and infants within the first twenty eight days.
Barr Bimbola Salu-hundeyin represented by the Commission’s Federal Commissioner in change of Bauchi and Gombe states Alh Abubakar Danburam said the survey was to assist in planning and policy formulation in relation to maternal and child health in Nigeria.
He said that the exercise which is a follow up of the twenty eighteen National Demographic and Health Survey which showed twenty percent occurrence of neonatal and under five mortality in the south and eighty percent in the north.
