State Govts Charged By WHO To Pay Counterpart Funds
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is charging the state governments across Nigeria to pay their counterpart funds in order for them to benefit from the global organisations support for health infrastructure.
Mr. Galadima, the WHO Representative in the country, stated this in Minna, Niger State, last Tuesday at the continuation of the deworming of children in the state capital, and said that the failure to pay the counterpart funds by the state governments was hindering the development of the health sector across the country.
Mr. Galadima pointed out that there was no way that WHO would release its own part of the fund if the state governments failed to honour their own part of the bargain and insisted that “that is the memorandum of understanding (MoU) we entered into with state governments.”
However, the WHO representative also said the organisation was committed to supporting the states to improve the health status of their people.
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Mr. Adams Abdullahi Danjuma, the Regional Sales Manager (North) of Biomedical Nigeria Limited, which is partnering the Niger State Government on the deworming programme, had disclosed that no less than 450,000 children of between two and five years as well as pregnant women are to be dewormed throughout the country during the exercise.
Mr. Danjuma also disclosed that the firm would donate some consumables to the government for distribution to families across the states.
The firm, he stated, had carried out similar deworming exercises in Kwara and Oyo States as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and added that their objective is to improve the lives of the people, especially children and pregnant women.
Dr. Amina Sani Bello, the wife of the state governor, had flagged off the deworming campaign last Monday during which she solicited for the cooperation of major stakeholders in the state for the success of the programme.
Dr. Bello gave her assurance that the state government would continue in sustaining all of its health care services programmes by partnering reputable organisations to bring health care delivery services to the door steps of the average person in the state.
She also stressed upon the need for women to take advantage of the free services of the ‘Safe Motherhood and Vaccination’ programme that is being provided by the government.
