Bauchi Govt, Dangote, aid agencies sign MoU on polio immunisation

Bauchi State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Dangote Foundation, DFID and Bill and Milender Gate Foundation on routine immunisation in the state.

The state Commissioner of Health, Dr Zuwaira Hassan, disclosed this on Monday at a One-Day stakeholders’ Consultative Meeting with the theme ‘’Ending Preventable Deaths of Children in Bauchi State.’’

She said that the MoU was part of renewed effort by the state government to strengthen routine immunisation, primary health care and maternal, new born and child care.

According to her, the state government has been doing a lot toward improving access to routine immunisation in the state.

In this vein, the state government, the Commissioner said had embarked on training of its health workers to enable them provide quality healthcare services for the people.

According to her “government has made a lot of effort to improve access to quality health care such as the ongoing training of its healthcare workers to provide quality health care’’.

The state government she added has also allocated 15.3 per cent of the 2018 budget to its health sector as part of measures to improve access to quality healthcare.

Earlier in her remarks, Dr Sanjana Bhardwaj, Chief Health, UNICEF, called for collaborative effort to reduce maternal and child mortality to the barest in the country.