At Banjul Meeting, Nigeria’s First Lady Seeks Stronger Ties To Tackle Women’s Health Gaps

The First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Remi Tinubu, has said that robust and affirmative collaborations and partnerships are viable sources of anticipation to families crossed Nigeria.

According to a connection by her media aide, Busola Kukoyi, Mrs Tinubu spoke astatine the 12th variation of the Merck Foundation First Ladies Initiative Committee Meeting held successful Banjul, The Gambia.

The First Lady, who reiterated immoderate of the achievements of the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI), which she said proceed to springiness anticipation to families crossed Nigeria, focusing connected education, health, economical empowerment, societal concern and agriculture.

“These programmes are to complement the efforts of the medication of my husband, his Excellency President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, towards a amended beingness for the Nigerian families.

“In health, RHI has truthful acold donated $2million dollars (naira equivalent) to enactment advocacy and attraction for cervical crab tuberculosis arsenic portion of our committedness to destruct some diseases by 2030 amongst different wellness interventions successful collaboration with section and planetary partners.

“In education, we person provided yearly scholarships to 47 indigent students successful universities for 3 consecutive years.

“Additionally, 1,500 scholarships person been awarded to indigent students successful collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Education for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees,” she stated.

According to the First Lady, the collaborations and partnerships person continued to person occurrence stories crossed the nook and crannies of Nigeria.

She commended the CEO of Merck Foundation, Senator Rasha Kelej, for the assorted interventions of the Foundation which included 14 scholarships for a 1 twelvemonth diploma successful fertility and embryology and 2 twelvemonth master’s grade successful intersexual and reproductive care, women’s wellness and household medicine to Nigerian doctors.

The interventions besides included 40 scholarships for 1 twelvemonth diploma and 2 twelvemonth masters grade successful diabetes and endocrinology preventive cardiovascular, cardiology and obesity and value management, 3 scholarships for oncology research, aesculapian oncology and symptom management.

Senator Tinubu expressed the anticipation that the collaboration could beryllium expanded.

The gathering had assorted First Ladies from African countries, including the host, The Gambia, São Tomé, Central African Republic, Burundi and Senegal talk astir assorted interventions arsenic regards women and children’s wellness and education.

The Merck Foundation and the Renewed Hope Initiative some person shared imaginativeness for a healthier, amended educated and much empowered Nigeria, successful peculiar and Africa as a whole.