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Healthcare: Emir of Dass tasks J4PD on improved MNCH information, demand creation

The Emir of Dass, Alhaji Usman Othman, has  tasked Journalists for Public Health and  Development Initiative (J4PD) on improved and quality information on healthcare to improve the indices of Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) in the state.

He also urged the group to amplify government programmes and create demand for services.

The traditional ruler  stated this while receiving members of the J4PD on an advocacy visit in Dass local Government Council on Wednesday.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)  reports that J4PD is a civil society organisation working in Bauchi state to promote access to public health ,water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and other developmental issues.

NAN also reports that the  Emir is the chairman of Bauchi state Emirate Committee on Health Matters.

He mentioned that maternal and child health, malnutrition and infectious diseases indices were  poor and discouraging among other indicators.

Othman explained  that to overcome the  challenges, collective efforts must be employed to complement government efforts.

“We need J4PD to amplify government programmes and create demand for services.

“Implementing partners are also doing well in various healthcare programs but some members of the benefiting communities are not aware; the group should disseminate information on such services,” he said.

Othman lauded the initiatives of J4PD for prioritising healthcare in their reportage.

Earlier, Ms Elizabeth Carr, Coordinator J4PD,  said that the group was in Dass to intimate the emir of its activities on health matters and to seek royal blessings on the activities of the group.

She said that J4PD also depended on available  evidences to advocate maternal and health issues in the state

Carr announced that the group nominated the Emir as its patron.

She solicited partnership of the the state’s Social  Mobilisation and Task Force Committee on Health to generate demand for maternal and child medicare.(NAN)

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