The 2019 First Round Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Week will kick off from Sunday sixteenth to Friday twenty-first June, across Anambra State.
The Commissioner for Health Dr. Joe Akabuike made this know during a media chat in his office in Awka.
Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Week is a biannual event aimed at delivering a package on basic interventions that are highly effective in reducing child mortality and improving Mother and Child Health.
The services and supplies are integrated approach that involves a week-long event that will deliver an integrated package of preventive and curative health intervention services known to be highly cost effective and result oriented.
Dr. Akabuike who is the outgoing Commissioner for Health, explained that the objective of the exercise is to supplement Vitamin “A to children between the ages of six and fifty-nine months, to ensure sustenance of break in the transmission of wild polio virus in the state, scale up integration and delivery of other child survival interventions, boost routine immunization coverage, as well as
register birth.
The Executive Secretary, Anambra State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Chioma Ezenyimulu who underscored the importance of the exercise said all the commodities are free and safe, and appealed to care givers, mothers and pregnant women to avail themselves of the opportunity and ensure that their children and wards receive the interventions.
The one week exercise which will take place in all government Health Care Centres, selected General Hospitals, Mission Hospitals and other designated posts across Anambra State will be officially flagged off on Tuesday eighteenth June at Nnewi.
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