The United Nation Children Education Fund, UNICEF, disclosed that it has injected N300m into the purchase of ready-to-use- therapeutic food (RUTF) for the treatment of 28,000 severely malnourished children in Bauchi state.
The was disclosed by the UNICEF Chief of Dcfield Office Abdulai Kaikai during the launching of the Maternal and New-Born Child Health Week (MNCHW) held by at the urban Maternity centre in Bauchi on Wednesday.
Kaikai said the lives of 5,400 children have been saved since the inception of the community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition(CMAM) in the state.
He said:“UNICEF has provided 1,692,5600 women and children with life saving and developmental interventions through it support for the implementation of Maternal and New born Child Health programme in the state”
“The services rendered to women and children for the Maternal and New born Child Health programme, include deworming, Vitamin A Supplementation, growth monitoring, immunization,ante-natal care and birth registration, amongst others”
“In this round of Maternal and New-Born Child Health Week (MNCHW) , UNICEF has supported the state with a total of 2,571 bottles of vitamin A (Blue and Red capsules), worth 6.5million to be given to children during MNCHW” He said
In her address, the First Lady of Bauchi state, Hajiya Hadiza Mohammed said that the health system in the state was bedeviled with a number of maternal and child morbidity and mortality.
She expressed the government commitment to bring reforms in the health sector which will yield positive results within a short period.
