Adamawa Govt. flags off maternal, newborn, child health campaign
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Mayo-Belwa (Adamawa), Nov. 29, 2016 (NAN) The Adamawa Government on Tuesday flagged off the second phase of 2016 Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Week Campaign in Mayo-Belwa Local Government Area of the state.
Launching the campaign in Mayo-Belwa, Mrs Miracle Babale, the wife of the Deputy Governor, said that the main objective of the exercise was to boost the healthcare delivery system in the state.
Babale explained that the core objective of the programme was to improve and promote delivery and utilisation of health and nutrition services by women and children.
“The Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Week Campaign exercise will take place in all the 21 local government areas of the state from today.
“During the exercise, children from 0-59 months and pregnant women are expected to visit the nearest health facility or other designated places for MNCH interventions,” Babale said.
She said that the exercise was designed to increase the coverage of MNCH interventions, improve the capacity of health workers to deliver good quality services and to improve facility based health seeking behaviour of the people.
She explained that the event was a bi-annual activity adopted by the Federal Government of Nigeria through the National Council on Health (NCH).
According to her, the development come up as a result of backdrop of unacceptably poor maternal and under-5 health indices in the country, and urgent need to interrupt and reverse the trend.
The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Fatima Atiku, noted that the state government has supported the State Primary Health Care Development Agency with necessary logistics to facilitate training of various cadres of personnel at state, local and ward levels as well as posting of senior supervisors from the Ministry of Health to ensure the success of the exercise.
Atiku, therefore, called on all communities, health workers and other personnel participating in the campaign to ensure that the aim and objectives of the programme were fully achieved.
“Parents and care givers should be rest assured that the interventions are safe and cost effective, and will boost the immune system of our children,” Atiku said. (NAN)
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Edited by Muhammad Suleiman Tola