Kogi commences training of 105 health officers for implementation of maternal, neonatal child health

Over 105 of health officers of Kogi State government have been captured for training of effective implementation of Maternal and Neonatal Child Health (MNCHW).
Bolarinwa Ogundusi, the state nutrition officer/MNCHW focal person, disclosed this in Lokoja, at a two-day training programme for the health workers from the 21 local government areas of the state.
The health officers also include: local immunisation officers, nutrition coordinators, maternal child and health coordinators, malaria elimination officers and state technical facilitators.

Ogundusi also disclosed that the training programme was a refresher course for the “training of the trainers”, who would in turn were expected go to their various local governments to train other health workers.
The weeklong free primary healthcare services will be for pregnant women and children between ages six and 59 months, aimed to reduce and eradicate maternal, infant mortality and morbidity rate in the state, Ogundusi also said.
He added that the training was also to review their performances in the previous MNCHW, look at the gaps, weaknesses and strength, and try to improve on them and readjusted where necessary.
“The Maternal and Newborn Child Health Week (MNCHW) is a week-long programme scheduled to hold from July 17 to July 21 in all the designated health facilities across the 21 local government areas in the state.”
“It has a lot of thematic areas such as Vitamin A supplementation, malaria net distribution, antenatal care, immunisation, birth registration, family planning, de-worming and MUAC screening, among others,” he said.
He commended the state governor, Yahaya Bello, for his support and for approved and timely release of all the funds needed for full implementation of both the January and July MNCHW.
Michael Eseyin, one of the trainees from Mopamuro Local Government Health Educator, said he had learnt new things and benefitted a lot from the refresher training.
“It is a routine service that we render; we will to go down to our various local government areas to train other health workers for effective implementation of the MNCHW,” Eseyin said.

VICTORIA NNAKIAIKE