The Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) has commenced the implementation of its nutrition flagship program, tagged: “Aliko Dangote Foundation Integrated Nutrition (ADFIN),” program in Kano State.
According to the ADF’s Director of Health and Nutrition, Dr.
Francis Aminu, the program is in line with the plan to use the newly
refurbished Primary Healthcare Centers (PHCs) across 5 pilot LGAs as Outpatient
Care (OPC) and Inpatient Care (IPC) component of the Integrated Management of
Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) services for the Programme.
Meanwhile, no fewer than 30 health workers have been trained
in Kano.
Aminu said, “The purpose of the training was to equip the
health workers with the requisite skills on how to assess, treat and care for
malnourished children under the age of five. The 5-day training enabled
participants to gain in-depth knowledge in line with the training requirements
as stated in the National Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition
Guidelines.”
He said the participants were drawn from the State Ministry
of Health and the five ADFIN supported sites from Bebeji, Dala, Kura, Tudun
Wada, and Rimin-Gado LGAs comprising Officers-in-Charge (OICs), Community
Health Extension Workers (CHEWs), Nutrition focal persons, Maternal and Child
Health (MCH) Coordinators, and Primary Health Care (PHC) Coordinators.
At the opening ceremony of the training, key development
partners in Kano state participated and expressed their goodwill messages to
ADF on the IMAM training.
Participants include the representatives of Nutrition
International (NI), Partners for Development (PfD), Civil Society for Scaling
up Nutrition (CSSUN) Kano, and Nutrition Society of Nigeria (NSN), among
others.
The training was declared open by the Commissioner of
Health, Kano State, Dr. Aminu Ibrahim Tsanyawa, who was represented by the
Permanent Secretary, Kano State Ministry of Health, Amina Musa.
In his closing remarks, the Commissioner commended the
dynamic leadership of the PHC Coordinators in staying with their health workers
throughout the training.
He further commended the Foundation for its contribution to
human capital development in Nigeria, and Africa at large, while expressing his
profound appreciation for the numerous contributions made by Alhaji Aliko
Dangote to Kano State.
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