The Federal Capital Territory has achieved over 140 per cent increase in the proportion of children de-wormed in 2012 compared to last year’s average, the Minister of the FCT, Senator Bala Mohammed, revealed over the weekend.
Mohammed made this known at the flag-off of the FCT Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Week and the commissioning of the Owner Occupier Primary Health Care Centre in Kubwa, Bwari Area Council.
Mohammed, who was represented by the Minister of State for the FCT, Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide, said maternal and child welfare programmes were receiving serious attention from the Administration.
He said: “Effective healthcare remains one of the fundamental objectives and principles of state policy. This Administration will remain true to this core constitutional function by constantly updating our healthcare institutions with the requisite equipment and qualified personnel.
“A crucial aspect of these initiatives will be that of investing in the capacity development of health workers as well as providing them with the enabling environment.”
The minister confirmed that the FCT had achieved over 150 per cent increase in Vitamin A coverage and expressed optimism that the Territory would achieve the target set under the Millennium Development Goals in the FCT Health Sector.
He noted that the Administration would continue to evolve and implement programmes and projects that will promote the health of FCT residents, particularly mothers and children.
He added: “Our aim is to firm-up the family unit and significantly reduce the financial burden posed by the critical aspect of healthcare upon households. The family constitutes the nucleus of every society.
“In order to have a healthy society therefore, all hands must be on deck to keep the family alive and well. It is for this reason that the FCT Administration is working assiduously to significant reduce, if not totally eliminate, the incidence of infant and maternal mortality in the FCT.”
On the Kubwa Owner Occupier Primary Health Care Centre, Mohammed explained that it was designed by the FCT Administration to relieve the pressure on the Kubwa General Hospital.
He added: “It therefore, gladdens my heart to note that where we are standing today is the rehabilitated centre which has successfully gone through service-provision test-run.”
The Chairman of Bwari Area Council, Hon. Peter Yohanna, had earlier in his address, commended the FCT Minister and Minister of State for promoting good health in the area councils.
Yohanna stated that Bwari Area Council had distributed treated mosquito nets to residents as part of measures to ensure high quality and affordable healthcare in the area council.
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