The Commissioner of Primary Health in Niger State, Dr Ibrahim Dangana has said the emergency primary healthcare surveillance that has been reactivated in the state following the recent outbreak of Cholera disease in some communities will help curb the spread.
Dangana stated this on the sidelines of the inauguration of the taskforce committee on immunisation at the office of the State Deputy Governor, Comrade Yakubu Garba, on Tuesday at the Government House Minna
According to Dangana, against the backdrops of the recent cholera outbreak in the state, primary healthcare emergency surveillance has been reactivated in the area of active case search, infectious prevention and control and risk communication management of the outbreak in order not to spread to the larger society.
“We have taken all measures to prevent it from spreading using all the safety protocols that will safeguard our people from the disease,” Dangana added, noting that mobilisation of resources in terms of funding, security and sharing experience to provide quality primary health care system in the state is the objective and goals of the committee.
The commissioner stated further that the Deputy Governor of Niger State had charged the committee to ensure quality and quantitative immunisation that gives a healthier children and women in the state.
Earlier, the State Deputy Governor and Chairman, Niger State Taskforce on Primary Healthcare, Comrade Yakubu Garba had inaugurated a taskforce committee on primary healthcare on immunization in his office at the Government House Minn.
Speaking during the inauguration, Garba called on members of the committee to collaborate in order to achieve success, advising the committee to device a means of improving on previous successes recorded in the past while promising government’s financial support for effective funding of the committee’s objectives and goals.
Addressing the media,shortly after the task force committee inauguration, Dangana, said the essence of the committee is to foster inter-sectoral collaboration and synergy for effective and efficient primary healthcare immunisation in the state, saying issues of immunisation is sensitive to the people, hence the need to carry out awareness and sensitization campaigns using the traditional institutions.
He noted that mobilisation of resources in term of funding, security and sharing experience to provide quality primary health care system in the state is the objective and goals of the committee.
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