HealthNewsNigeriaUNICEF, UNFPA To Trains 4,500 Health Workers In Three States

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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is set to train 4,500 health workers on Straightening Access to Reproductive and Adolescent Health (SARAH) in Adamawa, Kwara and Sokoto States.

Mr Oluseyi Olosunde , Health Officer, UNICEF Nigeria, Bauchi Field Office made this known at a sensitization workshop for stakeholders for the successful implementation of the programme in Yola on Tuesday.

He said the objective of the four-year programme was to strengthen national and sub-national institution’s capacity to deliver integrated services, evidence-based policy, and planning among others.

Olosunde said that the partners would provide technical support to strengthen the capacity of the instructors to deliver.

In his remarks, Mr Felix Tangwami, Adamawa State Commissioner of Health thanked the partners for considering the state for such a programme and charged the stakeholders to take the sensitization seriously for a successful implementation in the state.

“Please discuss professionally for the programme to succeed. Ensure that our people get the best out of it.

“We have done well in the past because we laid a good foundation for others to continue from where we stopped,” he said.

Tangwami appreciated Gov. Ahmadu Fintiri for the payment of the counterpart funding demanded by partners to move the health sector forward.

Also speaking, Adamawa Planning Commission Chairman, Mary Paninga said UNICEF had impacted the health sector in the state, and assured the people that the state would not fail in the implementation of the programme.

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)

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