Anambra State Government says it is committed to ensuring that child
mortality in the State is reduced to the barest minimum.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr Vincent Okpala, stated this during the
inauguration of the first round of Maternal Newborn and Child Health
Week for children below zero to fifty months, pregnant women and women
of childbearing age at Umuenem Otolo Nnewi in Nnewi North Local
Government Area.
Correspondent Emmanuel Chigbata quotes Dr Okpala, as saying that the
event was to constitute some basic interventions that are highly
effective in reducing child mortality while improving mother and child
health.
The Commissioner added that the overall goal of the health care
services is to reduce child mobility and mortality by supplying
Vitamin A to Children, ensuring the sustenance of break in the spread
of wide polio virus and to boost routine immunization coverage.
In her welcome address, the Executive Secretary Anambra State Primary
Healthcare Development Agency, Dr Chioma Ezenyimulu, who noted that
the week which started six days ago in all primary health centres in
the state revealed that the Maternal, Newborn and child week aims at
contributing towards improving the health status of Nigerian women and
children.
She called on pregnant women in the state as well as caregivers to
make their children and wards from Six months to Five years available
for the exercise.
In a remark, the Transition committee Chairman for Nnewi North Local
Government area, Chief Chukwudi Orizu, who commended Governor Willie
Obiano for his outstanding leadership in the State urged pregnant
women to always take their supplements.
Present at the event were former Governor of Anambra State, Dame Virgy
Etiaba, the Commissioner for Youth Entrepreneurship and Creative
Economy, Mr Afam Mbanefo, Traditional Ruler of Nnewi Igwe Kenneth
Orizu the third, APGA faithful, captains of industry and other
government officials.
The event featured cultural dance by school children and
administration of immunization on children and dispensing of drugs to
pregnant women by Governor Willie Obiano who had earlier inaugurated
the exercise.
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