The Katsina State Government and Care Nigeria, have inaugurated project to boost essential reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health, and nutrition services (RMNCAH+N) to 1 million people in 200,000 households.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the three-year project tagged “Enhancing Resilience in Frontline Community Healthcare (EnRiCH)”, conceived by Care Nigeria, Katsina state government and Life Helpers, will cover 10 Local Government Areas (LGAs).
The project will engage 2,000 Frontline Health Workers who will be trained through digital learning platform to enable them provide quality essential services to individuals and families.
Inaugurating the project on Tuesday in Katsina, the state Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Musa Adamu, assured of the present administration’s commitment to continually enhance healthcare services for residents of the state.
Adamu said that the state government would provide enabling environment for such development partners to operate to enhance the health.
The Care Nigeria, Country Director, Dr Hussaini Abdu, represented by Jennifer Orgle, reaffirmed the organisation’s commitment to working with the state government to achieve a health system that was resilience, inclusive, and community-led.
According to her, one that will put our frontline workers at the centre of what we do, and the one that seek to improve health for all.
In a keynote address, the wife of the state governor, Hajiya Zulaihat Dikko-Radda, said that she was impressed with the targeted number of beneficiaries.
Represented by the Commissioner for Women Affairs, Hajiya Hadiza Yar’adua, she assured that her NGO would continue to partner with individuals and corporate bodies to advance education, healthcare and empowerment for the benefit of the state.
Also speaking the Executive Secretary, State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr Shamsudeen Yahaya, said 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.
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.
Similarly, Dr Mustapha Shehu, the Executive Secretary, State Development and Management Board, said the board’s responsibility was to ensure that the partners have a smooth working environment which aligned with the state’s priority.
“It is important that within the period of the project, 2,000 health workers are fully engaged as permanent workers.
“We will advise the government to do so, because they will be exposed to high level skills within a good terrain which the government will benefit from,” he said.
The EnRicH Project Coordinator, Mr Aminu Rimaye, revealed that 15 health facilities were expected to be equipped to provide timely and quality health services.
Rimaye added that GBV survivors would receive psychosocial first aid, counseling and referral services, among others.(NAN)(www.nannews.ng)
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