Katsina Upgrades 206 PHCs To Fight Malnutrition

Katsina State authorities said it has upgraded 206 Primary Health Care Centres (PHCs) retired of the 300 healthcare centres approved to heighten healthcare services crossed the state.

The State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftacy Affairs, Bishir Tanimu disclosed astatine the authoritative motorboat of the Conflict Prevention and Crisis Response and Resilience (CPCRR) task successful the state.
He said the wide-ranging program aimed connected combating malnutrition, pairing large-scale nutrient accumulation with stronger agrarian wellness services.

Tanimu said insecurity had disrupted farming and weakened indispensable services, creating a surge successful malnutrition crossed the state.

He explained: “Malnutrition is simply a nonstop effect of the information challenges we faced, which constricted cultivation productivity and basal services, but with the measures present successful place, this occupation volition soon beryllium history.”
The Commissioner added that cardinal to the inaugural is simply a caller Agricultural Mechanization Centre and the procurement of 400 tractors, with 10 tractors allocated to each section authorities area, noting that the instrumentality volition beryllium deployed during the rainy play and serviced afterward by trained engineers to support farmers connected the tract year-round.

“This volition alteration our farmers to cultivate much land, nutrient much food, and trim hunger crossed Katsina,” helium said.

“To complement nutrient production, Governor Dikko Umaru Radda has approved the upgrade of 300 superior wellness centres, with 206 centres already completed and 68 much nether construction.

“Each installation is outfitted with a tricycle ambulance to amended exigency effect successful hard-to-reach communities and heighten maternal and kid nutrition services,” helium said.

Tanimu besides highlighted a important emergence successful agrarian electrification funding, from ₦100 cardinal successful 2003 to ₦500 cardinal this year, ensuring that wellness facilities and farming communities person reliable energy to powerfulness instrumentality and storage.

Commending Governor Radda’s unwavering committedness to defeating malnutrition done a blend of nutrient production, healthcare expansion, and unchangeable electricity, pledging that each 34 section authorities councils volition prolong the gains.