UNICEF Applauds Sokoto Over Increase In Health Budget

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has commended the Sokoto State authorities for prioritising wellness and nutrition successful its budget, describing the determination arsenic a exemplary for advancing kid and maternal welfare.

UNICEF state typical successful Nigeria, Ms. Wafa Saeed, gave the commendation during a courtesy sojourn to the lawman governor, Alhaji Idris Muhammad Gobir.

She lauded the government’s determination to rise wellness assemblage spending from 6.5 percent to 10 percent betwixt 2024 and 2025, and to perpetrate N500 cardinal for nutrition supplies, a money UNICEF has pledged to lucifer done its Child Nutrition Fund.

“This committedness to wellness financing is commendable. It shows existent attraction for mothers, children, and the astir vulnerable,” Saeed said, stressing the value of nutrition and immunization successful the archetypal 2 years of life, erstwhile 75 percent of encephalon improvement occurs.

She noted that immunisation addresses six of the 10 starring causes of kid mortality, underscoring its relation successful securing a healthier aboriginal for children.

As portion of its partnership, UNICEF announced plans to enroll 250,000 mediocre and susceptible individuals into Sokoto’s societal registry nether the EU-SUSEE programme.

It besides flagged disconnected escaped healthcare services for 15,000 beneficiaries successful collaboration with the authorities Ministry of Health and the Sokoto State Contributory Healthcare Management Agency, SOCHEMA.

To fortify the programme, UNICEF donated 200 machine tablets, 200 powerfulness banks, 3 laptops, and thousands of “Mamakits” to enactment harmless childbirth and immunisation.

Ms. Saeed further commended facilities similar the state’s newborn attraction portion for their solar-powered infrastructure, cleanable h2o systems, and dedicated staff, describing them arsenic examples of sustainable healthcare delivery.

The lawman governor, Alhaji Idris Gobir, who received the items connected behalf of Governor Ahmed Aliyu, thanked UNICEF for its concern and assured the delegation of Sokoto’s continued collaboration.

He emphasised that healthcare already receives the largest allocation successful Sokoto’s 2024 and 2025 budgets, underlining the administration’s determination to widen services to each community, peculiarly susceptible households.

Gobir added that the concern with UNICEF volition besides fortify the combat against Malnutrition successful the state.

“A healthier colonisation contributes much to assemblage development. We volition proceed to enactment with UNICEF to amended healthcare, nutrition, and acquisition crossed Sokoto State,” helium said.