In its efforts to implement the Maternal Mortality Reduction Innovation and Initiatives (MAMII) project, the federal government, through the Federal Ministry of Health, organized a 5-day workshop to design a context-specific intervention suite for Kano state.
The workshop aimed at equipping participants with an understanding of the MAMII concept and paved the way for the designing of intervention suites and implementation plans across the state.
The coordinating minister of health, Professor Ali Pate, represented by the director of the federal ministry of health, Dr Saidu Ahmed, highlighted that MAMII will redefine healthcare delivery in Nigeria.
He pointed out that, Kano state has taken the lead in the northern part of the country, emphasizing on participants and relevant stakeholders to deepen partnership, understand their roles to achieve the desired objectives.
In his welcome remarks, the Kano state commissioner for health Dr Abubakar Labaran Yusuf stressed that the state government will work with relevant stakeholders to support the federal government to crash maternal and neonatal mortality.
According to him, Kano state is important to the health sector indices and problems.
“Being the most populous state with high zero dose children, child mortality, malnutrition among others.
Dr. Abubakar hinted that, the last eighteen months of the previous administration witnessed poor coordination of routine immunization.
The commissioner noted that the present administration under the leadership of Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf improved routine immunization, introduced free ANC, delivery and CS before the federal government.
Speaking on behalf of the 36 health commissioners of The federation, Dr Temi Coker, the commissioner for health in Ogun state, emphasized that Nigeria contributes to the 3rd number of maternal maternity globally.
She hinted that the MAMII Project will strengthen systems of human resource capacity building to rapidly crash maternal mortality.
In their presentation titled Overview of SWAp and MAMII Strategy, Dr Ashiru and Dr Dayo from the sector-wide approach, coordination office SCO, posited that Kano contributes 18 out of 172 prioritized LGAs to crash maternal mortality, followed by Katsina, Jigawa, Kaduna, Borno, Bauchi Among others.
They said Nigeria’s sector-wide approach SWAp is a management approach that aims to build a more cohesive, effective, and sustainable health sector.
“The Nigeria SWAp will be operationalized based on five core principles, one plan, one budget, one report, one conversation and one voice”
Paradigm News reports that the workshop witnessed a large turnout of relevant stakeholdersders from the federal ministry of Health SWAp SCO, Kano, Jigawa and Katsina states, development partners and all relevant stakeholders in Nigeria’s health sector