NPHCDA SET TO ENHANCE MATERNAL, CHILD HEALTH –SURE

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NPHCDA SET TO ENHANCE MATERNAL, CHILD HEALTH –SURE

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, has set up a steering committee in Ekiti State towards ensuring the successful implementation of its SUREP Maternal and Child Health, MCH, Conditional Cash Transfer, CCT programme. Its Executive Director/ CEO, Dr. Ado Muhammad, said the project targeted improvement of maternal and child health through properly equipped facilities with workers capable of providing service delivery. Muhammad, who spoke during the inauguration of the committee in Ado- Ekiti at the weekend, said “the CCT project is not only designed to encourage pregnant women to go through the full continuum of maternal, neonatal and child health services, it is also meant to improve the welfare of beneficiaries through cash support in order to reduce the impact of economic barriers to access health services.”

Maternal Child Mortality Drops In Nigeria – Project Director
The Project Director, Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment, Sure-P, Maternal and Child Health Programme, Dr. Ugo Okoli has expressed delight over the impact of the programme among Nigerian women. Speaking in Enugu during the inauguration of the State Steering Committee of the Conditional Cash Transfer, CCT, Programme, Dr. Okoli noted the drop in percentage of child and maternal mortality.
Members of the Committee in...

Abuja community decries lack of healthcare facilities


KATAMPE 1 is one of the numerous settlements in the suburbs of Abuja in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) situated in Mpape town Bwari Local Council.
It lies on the famous Mpape rocks that are easily sighted from the closest neighbouring district of Maitama. Like most communities in the Federal Capital Territory, the original inhabitants of Katampe are the Gbagis. Sequel to the on-going implementation of the FCT administration’s master-plan for Abuja, residents affected by series of demolition of illegal buildings in several places, find it convenient taking up new homes here because of cheap rentals.  However, when MacArthur Foundation took some journalists to the village recently, the residents complained of lack of hospital facilities.The situation has become so worrisome that the villagers have to go out to major cities in the FCT to seek for medical services especially the nursing mothers who have to stroll a long distance to obtain antenatal service. It was revealed that the community has recorded some deaths of children due to the situation of the healthcare system in the community.


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