Katsina, Care Nigeria to boost healthcare for one million residents
The Katsina government and Care Nigeria have inaugurated a project to enhance essential reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health, and nutrition services (RMNCAH+N) for one million people across 200,000 households.
The three-year project, titled ‘Enhancing Resilience in Frontline Community Healthcare,’ was conceived by Care Nigeria, the Katsina government, and Life Helpers and will cover 10 local councils.
The project will engage 2,000 Frontline Health Workers who will be trained through a digital learning platform to enable them to provide quality essential services to individuals and families.
Inaugurating the project on Tuesday in Katsina, the state Commissioner for Health, Musa Adamu, assured of the present administration’s commitment to continually enhancing healthcare services for residents.
Mr Adamu said that the state government would provide an enabling environment for such development partners to operate, thereby enhancing health.
The Care Nigeria country director, Hussaini Abdu, reaffirmed the organisation’s commitment to working with the state government to achieve a resilient, inclusive, and community-led health system.
In a keynote address, Zulaihat Dikko-Radda, the wife of the Katsina governor, stated that she was impressed with the targeted number of beneficiaries. She assured that her NGO would continue to partner with individuals and corporate bodies to advance education, healthcare, and empowerment for the benefit of Katsina.
The executive secretary of Katsina’s Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Shamsudeen Yahaya, stated that the state had 1,636 facilities providing healthcare services, including routine immunisation.
He said the government had so far revitalised 260 out of the 361 primary health centers across the 34 local government areas to improve access to quality healthcare delivery at the grassroots.
Mr Yahaya said that the government had engaged over 150 midwives and 438 frontline health workers under the GAVI MoU, all in its efforts to improve healthcare services delivery.
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