FG, Kwara state partner to promote adolescent health issues

Date: 2018-05-16

The Federal Government says it will partner with the Kwara state Government and other stakeholders to promote adolescents health issues in Nigeria.

Mrs Justina Young, the Representative of the Federal Ministry of Health, stated this on Tuesday during a meeting with stakeholders on adolescent Health and Development in Nigeria at the Ministry of Health in Ilorin, Kwara state capital.

Young said the aim of holding the stakeholder's meeting is to highlight and also strategise on the minimum package of services and standards for Adolescent Healthcare services in Nigeria.

According to her, Nigeria recognizes the pivotal importance of addressing the health and development issues of the adolescent populations to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from now until 2030.

She said that adolescent health has become a priority on the global agenda in addressing their rights and needs.

"The government and the necessary stakeholders will be mobilising its collective expertise and technical capacity to ensure adolescent health is addressed in this country.

"There is need to implement this Global Strategy, and we will continue to advocate for evidence-informed reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health programmes at all levels. Beyond health itself, investments are needed in other domains crucial for an adolescent to survive, thrive and transform his or her society," she said.

In her Address, the Executive Secretary, Kwara State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr Abimbola Folorunso noted that adolescents have been marginalised for a while in area of healthcare issues.

She explained that the outcome of the stakeholders meeting will go a long way to address this challenges faced by adolescents in the state and the nation in general.

Folorunso commended the Federal Ministry of Health for the initiatives on adolescents health, adding that it is an important mandate of the Primary Health Care programme.

She added that it can further help in providing effective and efficient healthcare delivery services to both young mother and child

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     Elerinjare-Ibobo     Bolakale Saka     Ibrahim Mashood     Shehu Salau     Sarakite     11th Galadima     SDP     CLAY POT     AGM Professional Services     Naira Redesign     Adeniyi Ojo     Olaitan Adefila     Baaziki Sulaiman     Admiralty Villa     Saba Jibril     Kwara State Fire Service     Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrazaq     Oniwasi Agbaye     Akanbi-Oke     Muritala Awodun     Kayode Bankole     Osuwa     Sobi     Fareedah Dankaka     Femi Agbaje     Femi Gbajabiamila     Universal Basic Education Commission     Musa Aibinu     Bankole Omisore     Sabi     Kayode Ibrahim     AbdulQowiy Olododo     Alapansapa     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     Rebecca Bake     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     Bibire Ajape     Volunteers Of Ilorin Community And The Emirate     Turaki     Oni Adebayo     Owu Fall     Khadijat Ayoola Yusuf     Www.Kwarareports.com     KSIRS     Ayinde Oyepitan     Saidu Kawu     Ilorin.Info     Funke Adedoyin     Omu Aran     Yoonus Lawal     Young Progressives Party     Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Kehinde Boyede     Kuliyan Geri     Afeyin-Olukuta     Academic Staff Union Of Universities     Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     Special Adviser On Digital Innovation     Leke Ogungbe     Mukhtar Shagaya     Jaigbade Alao     Plat Technologies Limited     Wahab Agbaje     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Shagari     Chikanda     Radio Kwara     Yusuf A. Usman     Hussein Olokooba     Joseph Bamigboye     Ijagbo Health Centre     IEDPU     Patience Jonathan     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Bamidele Aluko     Muslim Cementary    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Tafidan Kaiama     Press Release     Kunbi Titiloye     Gobir     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Edu     AIT Ilorin     National Party Of Nigeria     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Kolo     CACOVID Palliatives     Abdulfatai Ahmed     Yusuf Abubakar     Tunji Arosanyin     Ahmed Alhasssan     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Toyin Saraki     Kehinde Boyede     Moro     Titus Ashaolu     ER-KANG     Hameed Oladipupo Ali     Akeem Lawal     Ayodele Shittu     Ogbondoroko     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Aminat Ahmed     Ibrahim Abiodun     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Logun     Bamidele Adegoke     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Gbenga Awoyale     VADA     EFCC     Suleman Abubakar     Mohammed Abduraheem     Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     Segun Ogunsola     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Quranic Recitation Competition     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Ejidongari     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     Ita-Ore     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Bond     KWASAA     Adegoke Bamidele     Harafat E. Mukadam     Sebastine Obasi     Bature Bello     Sabi     Saliu Mustapha     Buhari     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     Al-Hikmah Radio     Oko Erin     Aso Ofi     Ijakadi     Share/Tsaragi     Baba Issa     Pategi     Elese Of Igbaja     Issa Baba     Ethical College     Matthew Okedare     Kunle Suleiman     Www.Kwarareports.com     Oya State     Hassan Oyeleke     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     Ilorin Central Mosque     Vishvas KOZ Tractors     Olaitan Adefila