Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke has flagged off the 2023 Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) week in the state.
The initiative which is in partnership with the Save One Million Lives Programme for Results (SOML) and United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) is targeted at delivering a package of basic interventions that are highly effective in reducing child mortality and improving mother and child health.
Addressing nursing mothers and Health workers at the flag off of the programme at Ayegbaju International Market, Osogbo, Adeleke said MNCH Week was aimed at improving child survival and development and improving maternal health of the people of the state.
The Governor, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Kayode Adegoke stated that his administration has begun to record remarkable achievements in the health sector.
His words: “Our government is prepared to put in place an enduring health system that will prevent the citizenry of this from all avoidable deaths due to emergencies, disease conditions or nutrition deficiencies”.
He urged all mothers to bring out their children to receive the life saving interventions at the designated health facilities and outreaches across the state.
Earlier, the Executive Secretary of the State Primary Health Care Development Board, Dr. Samson Fabiyi described the programme as part of attestations to the priority given to total well being of the people especially children by the administration of Senator Ademola Adeleke who he said, has left no one in doubt at improving the health status of every resident of the state.
He disclosed that the exercise would be held in 778 designated health facilities and outreach sites in all the 332 wards in the state for effective coverage.
