VVF: Kaduna GOVT. Provides N50m To Tackle Challenge - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 20, 2019
The Kaduna State Government has created a 50 million nairabudget line for Vesico Vaginal Fistula, VVF patients in the 2020 budget fortheir treatment, food and skills training.
The State’s Commissioner of Human Services and SocialDevelopment, Hafsat Baba made this known at a high-level conference onObstetric Fistula, which held in Kaduna.
She said that the State has over twenty-thousand untreatedcases, as the only VVF centre at Gambo Sawaba hospital can only treat 200patients annually, adding that the State government is however careful intreating the VVF patients.
The Commissioner said after the skills training, the patients received Starter Packs to enable them commence businesses after their treatment.Governor Nasir el-Rufa’, who was represented by the Commissioner of Health, Amina Mohammed-Baloni, commended Fifth Chucker Polo and Country Club for the bold step in defining the partnership with the government and United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA to eradicate fistula in Kaduna state.