By Ahmad Alabira, Dutse
The Chief of Party, INSPIRING Project, Dr. Adamu Isah has said 33 Primary and secondary Healthcare Facilities in Kiyawa local government area of Jigawa state have received donation of Medical equipment and instruments worth N50 Million from Save the Children International and GSK.
Dr Isah explained that the support was aimed at bridging existing gap of basic health equipments identified in the 33 health centres.
The distribution of the items across the 33 primary health care in Kiyawa local Government was held on Monday at the premises of the organization in Dutse, with the aim of fighting Pneumonia and other child killer deseases.
According to Dr Isah “these medical equipment that include medical instructions, testing kits, hand gloves, refrigerators, coolers, bags of rice and other nutritional items such as milk powder are donated to these health centres as a rescue mission to the patients”.
He further explained that before the donation of these items, investigation has been carried out in these health centres across Kiyawa LGA which revealed the areas of need and gaps where these items are needed most to fight Pneumonia.
Also, Jigawa state Government has blamed other development partners operating in the state for their inaction in the fight against pneumonia and other child killer diseases.
The state Permanent Secretary Ministry of health, Dr. Salisu Mu’azu stated this while recieving donation of Basic Hospital Equipments and Instruments to primary and secondary Health facilities in Jigawa state supported by Save the Children International and GSK.
He said for many years Jigawa state Government had been working with donors and development partners inorder to improve the healthcare quality of its citizens forgetting pneumonia which is the major killer of the under five children.
“We all know pneumonia is one of the major causes of children mortality, but unfortunately all the development partners and donors forget about it, they only concentrate on malaria, HIV, Tuberculosis and malnutrition forgetting the monster, Pneumonia”.
On behalf of the Jigawa state government, the PS commended save the children International for identifying the gap and deployed resources to tackle the problem in Kiyawa local Government area with the view to save the lives of children.
He therefore urged development partners to team up in the war against the pneumonia and improve the quality of lives of the citizens inorder to achieve the universal Healthcare coverage in the state.
He commended Save the Children International for talking and working.
