(http://peoplesdailyng.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/governor_abdulaziz_yari_abubakar_of_zamfara_state-300x225.jpg) (http://peoplesdailyng.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/governor_abdulaziz_yari_abubakar_of_zamfara_state.jpg)Zamfara state government has sponsored 70 girls from the 14 local government councils to study midwifery. This move is meant to compliment the programme carried by the Partnership for Revival Routine Immunization in Northern Nigeria and Maternal new born Child Health (PRRINNMNCH), to save the lives of mothers and children.
The development was made known by the Commissioner for local government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Alhaji Muhammad Muttaka Rin, who was represented by the state ALGON Chairman, Bello Dankande Gamji, during the flag-off ceremony of the Community- based service delivery been supported by the PRRINNMNCH in collaboration with the state ministry of health.
Rini said that adequate arrangement had been concluded for the employment of 50 female community health extension workers for the sustainability of the programme. In her remarks, the state programme Coordinator, Dr. Halima Sanda, explained that the essence of the activities run by the PRRINNMNCH is directed for the empowerment of communities towards reducing the incessant increase of maternal mortality and to improve child health. She urged the traditional title holders from the seventeen emirates of the state to create forums upon which husbands would be enticed to always allow their pregnant wives to attend anti natal care services in hospitals and other available health care links.
Earlier in his opening remarks, the state acting team manager, Dr. Sani Dahiru Abubakar, noted that the northern part of the country has the highest rate of maternal and infant mortality.
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