UNICEF partners S/West states on healthcare delivery to rural areas
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Ado Ekiti, March 28, 2017 (NAN) The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) is collaborating with the six states in the South West to improve healthcare delivery in rural areas.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the partnership manifested at the commencement of a three-day workshop on Tuesday at Ilupeju Ekiti for healthcare workers from Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Ekiti and Edo states.
Speaking at the occasion, the Chairman of the Social Mobilisation Technical Committee for UNICEF Assisted Programmes in Ekiti State, Mr Sunday Aribatise, explained that the objective of the workshop was to develop Nutrition Briefs for Primary Healthcare workers.
According to him, the collaboration was also aimed at promoting exclusive breastfeeding and appropriate complementary feeding at all levels.
Aribatise added that the workshop would help to develop a work-plan for advocacy to various groups to promote nutrition briefs.
He said nutrition officers as well as Monitoring and Evaluation officers from primary healthcare facilities in the six participating states would have been well equipped at the end of the workshop.
The workshop is coordinated by the Ekiti State Ministry of Information, Youth and Sports Development. (NAN)
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Edited by Saidu Adamu/Muhammad Suleiman Tola