By Ahmed Rufa’i, Dutse
The JIgawa state governor, Malam Umar Namadi has commended the medical team of Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) over free medical personnel training and healthcare services being rendered to the people in the state
The governor made the commendation while receiving the medical team operating in the state at government house Dutse.
He said his administration is committed to improving the lives of Jigawa citizens by giving more priority to the health sector.
Malam Namadi noted that the presence of the MSF in the state has improved humanity in general, as he describes their clinic in Jahun as “World Class”.
He promised to attend a round table discussion and also continue to give all support and cooperation to MSF to expand access to healthcare and save human lives.
Speaking earlier MSF country Director Mrs Pamela Akoth who led the team said MSF is receiving over 12,000 child delivery annually in it’s center at Jahun general hospital under it’s Maternal Child Health intervention in the state.
The country director told the governor that for 15 years the MSF has been carrying out intervention in the area of child vaccination against killer diseases, Meningitis, Cholera out break and other Health emergency cases of diseases outbreak.
“We have a VVP center where we are admitting and repairing women suffering from VVF, And we equally have intervention in Maternal and New Born Child Health (MNCH) in three local government areas of the state namely Taura, Miga and Jahun.
“Our maternity in Jahun local government is one of the best, and it equally serves as a centre for training of health workers from Nigeria and abroad”,
“We conduct antenatal and post-natal, in this three local governments we are recieving over 1,000 delivery monthly “
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All the MNCH services and drugs we are providing there are free including referral of complicated cases to Dutse or Kano Hospital, we also feed our admitted patients free” Mr Pamela stated.
She intimated the governor on their plan ” Round Table Discussion ” scheduled to take place in Abuja for reviewing their 15 years of operation, presenting a local data including the support from state governments and other key stakeholders”
“The round Table Discussion will showcase the achievement we have made and the challenges we have aimed at expanding our activities for more access to healthcare services for all ” She revealed