The Rotary International said it had donated Family Planning Equipment (FPE) and consumables worth over N20 million to health facilities across the 36 States of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The Coordinator, Kogi State Rotary International Maternity and Child Health Project, Grace Ben-Kato, disclosed this while presenting the FPE and commodities to 10 selected health facilities in Kogi at the State Ministry of Health in Lokoja.
Ben-Kato said that the gesture was prompted by the mandate giving by the Federal Ministry of Health in Nigeria through collaborative efforts with Rotary International to support reduction of maternity and perinatal morbidity and mortality in the country.
She said that 10 facilities in each of the 36 States and the FCT, had received Rotary International family planning equipment.
According to her, for effective campaign of the project, 60 Journalists drawn from media organisations in the country have been trained on effective reporting of maternity and child health issues, especially family planning from all over the country.
”In support of the Family Health Department of the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH), the Rotary action Group for Reproductive, Maternal, and Child Health (RMCH) under the National Family Planning Campaign Project in collaboration with SOGON is embarking on training of doctors and nurses on Obstetric Quality assurance (QQA).
”Family planning for selected doctors and nurses across secondary and tertiary facilities in the states would be trained likewise.
”RMCH will continue to work assiduously to substantially reduce maternity and perinatal mortality and morbidity in our country,” she said.
The coordinator stressed that the donated equipment and contraceptives were not to be sold, but to be given free of charge to the beneficiaries in need of them, saying it should be kept safe always in the family planning unit.
In her response, the Acting Permanent Secretary of the Kogi state Ministry of Health, Mrs Rose Offor, who received the medical items on behalf of the Commissioner of Health, Dr Saka Audu, thanked Rotary international for the humanitarian services being rendered in the state.
Offor assured that the Family Unit under the ministry would make proper use of the items and ensure that they get to the targeted beneficiaries.
She appealed to the Rotary International not to give up on its humanitarian services across all sectors, adding that the world and Kogi citizens would forever be grateful to them.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the benefiting facilities include: Cottage Hospital CH) Budon, Lokoja; CH Emeweopada, Dekina; General Hospital Ifeolukotun, Yagba East; and PHC Adogo, Ajaokuta.
Others are: ECWA Hospital, Mopamuro; General Hospital Ayetoro, Ijumu; Cottage Hospital, Iyara, Ijumu; PHC Oroke 11, Mopamuro; General Hospital Okengwon, Okene; and Cottage Hospital Agbaja, Lokoja. (NAN)
