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Nigeria: EU Launches N27bn Immunisation Project in Kano
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Leadership (Abuja)
14 May 2008
Posted to the web 14 May 2008
Mansur Sani Malam
Kano
European Commission (EU) yesterday launched a N27 billion project of support to routine immunisation in Kano State.
Speaking during the launching ceremony of the programme, held at Mambayya House, Gwammaja, Kano, the head of operations of the delegations of the European Commission to Nigeria, Mr. Denis Thieulin, explained that the goal of the Support to Routine Immunization in Kano (SRIK) is to reduce child mortality due to prevalent diseases like measles and tuberculosis and eradicate polio from the state.
Mr. Thieuline, who represented the head of delegation, Ambassador Robert van der Meulen, said the project will last four years, starting from July 2007 to July 2010 and it is implemented by a team of experts in close collaboration with Kano state ministry of health, adding that the team will also provide the technical assistance to support the state government and the 44 local government areas to improve the delivery of routine immunization services to the state.
In his address, the state governor, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, represented by his deputy, Engineer Abdullahi Tijjani Muhammad Gwarzo, described the occasion as a new chapter in their commitment to the earnest implementation of laudable Child Survival, Development and Protection programmes, saying it also anchors alongside the numerous programmes of his administration to reduce infant mortality and morbidity.
Malam Shekarau revealed that the state government has been consistent in the implementation of all programmes aimed at improving the lives of the people, and said " We have demonstrated unalloyed commitment to the polio eradication and improved Routine Immunization in the state", this according to him was done through sustained community mobilization, intensive supervision by high level government functionaries and support to cold chain system.
The governor also called on the local governments in the state to strive to undertake various efforts for the successes of the immunization project, while parents, caretakers and concerned individuals urged them to use the golden opportunity to ensure that all children benefitted from the project.
In their speeches, the state commissioners for health and local government, Hajiya A'ishatu Kiru and Alhaji Salihu M. Sagir, explained that the project has a mandate of to contribute to the reduction of childhood mortality and morbidity and vaccine preventable diseases in an integrated and collaborated approach with the state ministry of health and that of Ministry for Local Government.
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They stated that the project will support all the local governments' health care facilities through rehabilitation of cold stores, provision of logistic facilities, training of personnel and empowering the community groups for improving the quality of Routine Immunization services, and then called on the local government councils in the state to provide all necessary support that is needed for the successful implementation of the project.
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