Bauchi Trains Hospitals Staff On Maternal, Infant Nutrition

Officials of the Bauchi State government have trained healthcare personnel from 91 health facilities from  six local government areas on maternal, infant and young child nutrition to promote nutrition and efficient healthcare service delivery.

The state’s technical officer, gender equality unit of the Primary Health Care Development Agency, Sabuwa Tahir, disclosed this to reporters in an interview during a capacity building workshop for health administrators organised by Alive and Thrive with Funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with USAIDIHP.

She said the agency with the support of Alive and Thrive had embarked on issues of training to enlarge the scope and understanding of the new concept of MICYN.

“You know that nutrition has been somehow neglected initially in Bauchi State and Nigeria as a whole. But in view of what is happening now, many organisations are now supporting the issue of nutrition,” she said.

The officer added that a lot had been done and were still being done on nutrition particularly that of the mother, child, newborn and U-5 children.

Sabuwa added, “Initially, we had been concentrating on infants’ nutrition but it has been understood that you have to include the mother in order to have a healthy child, that is the reason we are now moving into maternal, infant and young child nutrition (MICYN). We are talking about it and we have trained a lot of people.”