By Kabiru Dogon Daji Birnin Kebbi
Kebbi state government, in collaboration with Sustaining Health Outcomes in the Private Sector Plus (SHOPS PLUs) and USAID, has vowed to eradicate diarrhoea in the state and trained 17 private hospitals medical personnel under its initiative, Push Diarrhoea Away, from the state. Delivering her speech yesterday in Birnin Kebbi at the launch of the programme, the Head of SHOPS PLUS TEAM, Mrs. Ayodele Iroko, said that about seven local governments and villages had been visited on the awareness campaign.
She added that 2,520 jingles on radio and television had been produced on the creative awareness on diarrhoea, while over 1, 000 children were infected and were treated accordingly. Blueprint gathered that the collaboration with the Kebbi state government was aimed at Pushing Diarrhoea Away from the state to ensure safety and healthy people. Mrs. Iroko added that the mission of the organisation was to save the lives of the children and ensure that diarrhoea was kicked out of the state by embarking on vigorous mobilisation campaign.
In her response, the wife of the Governor, Dr. Zainab Atiku Bagudu, thanked the organisation for choosing Kebbi as focal centre for its activities. In his remarks, the Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Umar Usman Kambaza, said that the SHOPS PLUs Project which was founded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) had been of tremendous support and assistance to the state in the past three years.
