The objective is to enable target beneficiaries have access to quality healthcare and nutrition services with emphasis on women, adolescent girls and children
By Haruna Usman, Birnin Kebbi
Global Affairs Canada Initiative, a non-governmental organisation operating in Nigeria has said that it has committed fifteen million Canadian dollars to tackle malnutrition in women, adolescent and children in Kebbi, Bauchi and Kaduna States.
UNICEF is providing the technical support while the State Government will implement the programme through Primary Health Centres, PHCs.
The UNICEF Chief Field Officer, Sokoto, Mr. Michael Juma, told participants at a training workshop in Birnin Kebbi, on Tuesday, that the objective is to enable target beneficiaries have access to quality healthcare and nutrition services with emphasis on women, adolescent girls and children.
He acknowledged the hard work of Governor Nasir Idris in improving the quality of healthcare in Kebbi, including the recent recruitment of 500 professional health workers.
A facilitator and Canadian Health Manager, Mr. Martin Dohlsten, explained that the intervention Programme funded by Canada would function for five years.
Kebbi Commissioner for Health, Yunusa Isma’il, and the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Dr. Shehu Nuhu KoKo, in separate remarks, affirmed the commitment of incumbent administration of Governor Nasir Idris, to make healthcare accessible and affordable to all communities in the state.
The Commissioner thanked Canadian Government for its monetary intervention in improving the health status of Kebbi people.
The Permanent Secretary, Dr. KoKo, informed the audience that priority has been attached to primary health and human resource development.
However, the two days training of health practitioners and journalists holding in Birnin Kebbi would at the end of day improve the implementation capacity of health workers drawn from the ministry of health, Kebbi state.