Until now, mothers expecting their babies in riverine areas of Rivers State often endured days to cross the Atlantic Ocean from places as far as Kula, a town that juts into the ocean, to paddle to upland areas to be delivered of their babies if local birth attendants in the seas could not help.
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IGNATIUS CHUKWU
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