Taraba Gov flags-off distribution of equipment, hospital consumables, drugs to PHCs
Taraba state governor, Darius Dickson Ishaku, has flagged-off the Distribution of Hospital Equipment, Consumables and Drugs worth millions of Naira to various Primary Health Care (PHC) facilities in the state.
Performing the event at the Jolly Nyame Stadium, Jalingo the Governor said that the health of the people of the state remains the cardinal principle of his administration, hence government’s intention to sink huge sums of money into the health sector.
The Governor, who pledged his administration’s unalloyed commitment to the wellbeing of the people of the state, said, “This is not where to play politics and this administration cannot afford to toy with the health of the people God has entrusted in our hands to care for”.
He added that the state government is ever determined and will never get tired in sinking more fund into the sector, aimed at emancipating the people from what he described as shackles of diseases and backwardness.
“I wish to reiterate here that as long as I remain the Captain of the rescue mission in the state, health remains in the priority list and will continue to receive a boost, for without health, life is meaningless”,
“All I am concerned about is the Health and wellbeing of my people because if the population is sick, how can they go to school, go to office, etc”, he said.
Earlier, in his address of welcome, the Taraba State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Innocent Vakkai described Governor Ishaku as a Governor that has a special passion about the health and wellbeing of the people of the state.
He said the manifestation of what he has just spoken about the Governor was series of flag-offs, including renovation of hospitals, supply of drugs, engagement of health officers to man the Hospitals across the state, purchase of vehicles, motor-cycles, generators, cold boxes and other hospital needs, too numerous to mention.
Dr. Vakkai said, with the support from the Federal Ministry of Health and Governor Ishaku’s approval, the State Ministry of Health was able to draw up a programme, “Save One Million Lives (SOML)” aimed at complimenting and improving maternal and child health care services in the state.
The Commissioner, who described the components of the Save One Million Lives as Pent 3, Vitamin “A” Supplementation, nutrition, utilization of insecticides treated nets, skills delivery, HIV testing and counselling and contraceptive usage further disclosed that SOML in Taraba State is training 330 Health workers on vaccines management tools, 75 on prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS at the Primary Health Care level, renovation of 32 PHCs across the 16 LGAs of the state.
“SOML is to train 450 health workers on live saving scheme to improve quality of deliveries with provision of delivery kits to pregnant women attending ANC in Public Health facilities across the state, 368 workers will also be trained on the distribution of mosquito nets,” he added.
