Kano State has cornered $8.1 million USD for emerging the overall winner of the 2018 North-West Matenal, Newborn and Child Health Week programme.
The feat was achieved following commitment of the present administration and the support of ‘Kano State Saving One Million lives Programme’ in offering low cost intervention to pregnant women and children under the age of 5 years in the state.
Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje disclosed this during the flag-off of the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Week February 2019, held at Getso in Gwarzo Local Government Area.
Ganduje, represented by his Deputy, Dr. Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna, stated that during the last round of the exercise, over two million children were supplemented with Vitamin A, while 1,180,760 children were de-wormed and thousands of women were given LLIN, Iron- Folate supplements and malaria prevention drugs respectively.
“Kano State government, which has been consistent in the implementation of all health programmes aimed at improving the lives of our people, has provided all necessary support to ensure this campaign is a success.
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“This administration has placed the highest priority on saving especially the lives of women and children through the provision of essential health services, both at primary and secondary care levels, and did not relent in taking holistic insight in to the fundamental needs of our healthcare sector and came up with comprehensive action plan,” he said.
He assured that Kano State government would strive and work harder in delivering more democratic dividend in housing, transportation including fly-over bridges, improving road network, agriculture, commerce and any intervention that would bring human development to the people of Kano.
Earlier, Dr. Kabiru Ibrahim Getso, the State Commisioner of Health, said the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Week is a week-long event during which low cost interventions are offered to prevent women and children under age of five with the aim of increasing coverage levels of some important preventive and curative health indicators that allow mothers and children to thrive and develop.
