From Mika’il Tsoho, Dutse
The team of Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF), popularly known as Doctors without borders, appealed to Jigawa state governor Malam Umar Namadi to intervene and ensure faster clearance and release of diphtheria vaccines by NAFDAC for the state.
The call was made by the MSF country Director Dr Famela Oko, when the team of MSF paid an advocacy visit to the governor on Tuesday at government house Dutse.
She explained that, the purposes of the visit is to forward formal invitation to governor for four days discussion with stakeholders on their activities at their centre located in Jahun general hospital Jigawa state.
Dr Oko, who commended the state government for supporting the centre through ministry of health, urged governor Namadi to help them with follow up to NAFDAC for faster clearance of diphtheria vaccines.
The country director, also appealed to governor Namadi to support the hospital with more specialist doctors and also to address issues related to shortages of drugs.
