Primary Healthcare: Maternal, Newborn, Child Health Week Begins In Kaduna May 27 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 24, 2019
TheKaduna State Ministry of Health and Human Services said it had concluded plansfor the conduct of maternal Newborn and Child health week on May 27.
Thestate Commissioner for Health Paul Dogo announced this at a news conference inKaduna, saying celebration of the week would be in collaboration withdevelopment partners through the Primary Healthcare Development Agency.
Accordingto Dogo, the week is scheduled to run from May 27 to May 31 and thatinterventions will be provided in 1, 212 health facilities in the 23 localgovernment areas of the state.
Hesaid the week would feature HIV/Aids counselling and testing to eliminatemother to child transmission of HIV.
Dogoadded that the week would also looked into child birth spacing to improve onthe contraceptive prevalence rate in the state which had been integrated in thepackage of implementation.