From Maduabuchi Nmeribeh, Kano
Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has concluded plans to checkmate maternal mortality and ensure the welfare and health prosperity of the Under-five age children in Kano.
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Aminu Ibrahim Tsanyawa, said Kano state Government, “is exceedingly concern with maternal and perinatal mortality rate in the state.”
Dr. Tsanyawa stated this during a two-day Bi-annual Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) Review Meeting, held in Kaduna State.
According to a Statement by the Information Officer, Kano State Ministry of Health, Ibrahim Abdullahi: “MPDSR is a systematic analysis of quality of care that includes diagnosis, treatment, care and outcome for patients to assess the extent to which patients were served, or not, with specified standards of care within the facility.”
In the Statement, Dr. Tsanyawa explained that the Ganduje-led administration is doing a lot in addressing the menace of maternal morbidity and mortality as well as the mortality of Under-five children.
He added that, “the important step Khadimul Islam (Ganduje) has adopted is the revitalization of health centres across the 44 Local Government Areas.
“We all know that health centres are the primary points of contact with a patient. These facilities are very much closer to the communities that provide easy access to healthcare delivery to the people.
“We all know that these facilities have for long been dilapidated, resulting in creating a vacuum in health service delivery and causing a delay in access to care for the patients.
“That is why Governor Ganduje is doing tremendously to revitalize these facilities in line with the minimum package policy of the Federal Ministry of Health.”
Dr. Tsanyawa furrher stated that, “government is also doing its possible best to provide the basic equipments needed in these facilities and the required human resource for health that will manage them and provide the efficient service delivery and quality care to the teeming clients across the state in both primary and secondary health facilities.
“In order to keep health workers abreast of the modern skills in healthcare system, the Kano State government has established a state-owned Teaching Hospital to be training doctors, in addition to commencement of residency training especially in obstetrics and gynaecology in the same facility with a view to ensure that specialists provide adeqaute health care to the people of the state.”
The Commissioner commended the participants for having time to participate in the workshop despite their tight schedules.
“This has portrayed your passion, concern and zeal to see the reduction of maternal morbidity and mortality as well as the mortality of under five children in our dear state,” he added.
In his remarks, the Director Public Health and Disease Control of the Ministry, Dr. Ashiru Rajab, represented by the Programme Manager, Leprosy and Tuberculosis, Dr. Ibrahim Aliyu Gano, said that the Workshop is aimed at disseminating findings from the quarterly mentoring of facilities MPDSR process and major causes of maternal and perinatal death in Kano State as reported by various primary and secondary health facilities and to link MPDSR with findings from integrated supportive supervision, logistics and supply chain managements.
He added that the Workshop was also designer to develop action plan to avert future maternal and perinatal death and to strengthen the community MPDSR implementation in the state.
