Days when pregnant mothers died while giving
birth to young ones is gradually coming to an
end in Taraba state, as the state governor, Arc.
Darius Dickson Ishaku, insist that all pregnant
mothers in the state must have access to
quality antenatal care (ANC).
The governor, who made this known through the
chairman of the governing Board of the Taraba
State Primary Health Care Development Agency
(TSPHCDA)Victor Bala Kona, said the issue of
pregnant mother access quality ANC services in the
state is not negotiable.
Speaking at the three day stakeholders engagement meeting on repositioning
of Primary Health Care Under One Roof (PHCUOR)
and Adoption of Minimum Service Package (MSP)
for primary health care facilities in the state, the
governor, through Kona, reiterated his
determination to work round the clock to ensure
that ” our pregnant mothers deliver safely, and get
potent routine vaccine for our neonate.”
The workshop which took place in the Mambilla
Plateau of Sarduana council, as noticed by Naija247
News was said to have been supported by the
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Not comfortable with the way and manner pregnant
mothers have in the past gave up the ghost while
putting to birth, the state government, according to
him has resolved to establish Public Health Care
facilities in the entire wards of the sixteen local
government councils of the state.
Sad that only ” 46 percent of health facilities in the
state have midwives” many health facilities
according to him “suffer from inadequate supply
of water and electricity.”
” Obsolete equipment in health facilities,
inadequate drug supply, irregular and inadequate
staff remuneration, low staff morale and attitude,
administrative bottleneck and poor access roads”
he also identified as some of the factors bedeviling
the health system.
Sure of overcoming the aforementioned challenges
in the state health sector, health workers not willing
to put in their best, he said would as a matter of
urgency thrown into the unemployed market.
According to him ” the typical laxity, non chalant
attitude and lack of accountability characterized by
our system cannot continue” adding that ” if you
cannot plough then You quit” as the ” rescue
mission will not give room or any of these drag-
back.”
He said ” let our PHCs suck 80percent of local health
burdens, let us be remembered by history, let our
names be written in gold and let the sands of time
leave behind indelible footprints of the life line we
have given our people.”
Earlier, the Chief of Field Office of the Bauchi Field
Office of the UNICEF, Dr. Abdulahi Kaikai, who was
overwhelmed by he state government commitment
towards ensuring primary health care under one
roof, said wth the establishment of functional
governor board for the agency, the sky is no doubt
the starting point for the state.
Reiterated UNICEF unflinching support to the state
government, the need for the state government to
work tirelessly round the clock to ensure the
establishment of Primary Health Care Services in
the entire wards of the local councils, he said, has
become relevant for the prevention of death from
curable diseases.
On his own part, the Executive Secretary of the
Agency, Alhaji Aminiu Jauro Hassan, said the
agency, would work to improve coverage and
quality of health services delivery.
He however pleaded to the authority concern to
alway endeavor to make available to the agency
take off grant as at when due stating that ” the
release of the Agency’s take off grant should be
expedited.”
-News24/7
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