The United Nations Children’s Fund in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund is set to train no fewer than 4,500 health workers on measures to improve access to reproductive and adolescent health in Adamawa, Kwara, and Sokoto states.
UNICEF health officer at the Bauchi field office, Oluseyi Olosunde, disclosed this in Yola, Adamawa’s capital, on Tuesday, during a sensitisation workshop for stakeholders on the implementation of the programme.
Olosunde said the four-year programme would be implemented with “a strong focus on sustainability”.
He said that the objective was to strengthen national and sub- national institution’s capacity to deliver integrated services, evidence-based policy, and planning among others.
He stated that the partners would provide technical support to strengthen the capacity of the instructors to deliver.
He commended the efforts of the Adamawa government on its policies and programmes in the health sector.
In his remarks, Mr Felix Tangwami, the Commissioner of Health in the state thanked the partners for considering the state for such a programme.
He charged the stakeholders to take the sensitisation seriously for a successful implementation in the state.
“Please discuss professionally for the programme to succeed. Ensure that our people get the best out of it.
“We have done well in the past because we laid a good foundation for others to continue from where we stopped,” he said.
Tangwami appreciated Gov. Ahmadu Fintiri for the payment of the counterpart funding demanded by partners to move the health sector forward.
The Chairman of Adamawa Planning Commission, Mary Paninga said, the state always planned ahead to succeed.
Paninga, who said UNICEF had impacted on the health sector in the state, assured the people that the state would not fail in the implementation of the programme.
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