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.

Omoniyi     AbdulRaheem Ahmad Shayi     Jalala     Taofeeq Olateju     Road Transport Employers Association Of Nigeria     Aro Yahaya     Funmilayo Mohammed     Omoniyi M. Ayinla     Smart School     Monthly Sanitation     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Kanu Agabi     Salake     Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     Musa Aibinu     Baba Issa Awoye     Mahfouz Adedimeji     Quranic Recitation Competition     Wahab Isa     Aminat Ahmed     Zubair Folorunsho Erubu     Aisha Buhari     Kabir Shagaya     Council Of The Wise     Ojo Isekuse     Oyelere Oyinloye     Idris Amosa Saidu     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Rotimi Oyedepo     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Ilota     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     Quareeb Islamic Association     International Vocational Centre     Nurudeen Mohammed     Alabe     Asa     Gbajabiamila     Oniwasi Agbaye     Fola Consultant     Kuliyan Geri     ENetSuD     Micheal Imoudu     Alapado     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Code Of Conduct Bureau     Muritala Olarewaju     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Bolaji Abdullahi     Olusegun Adeniyi     Okin Biscuits     Kwara Politics     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Nagode     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab     Olaiya Victor Mobolaji     Adedipe     Yusuf Lanre Badmus     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Goodluck Jonathan     Overland     Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     Baruba     Ibrahim Gambari     Yoonus Lawal     Alao Ayotunde     Moji Makanjuola     Apaokagi     Inside Kwara     Igbaja     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Abdulraufu Mustapha     Illyasu Abdullahi     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Olukotun Of Ikotun    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Abdulrazaq Solihudeen     Tunji Oyawoye     Saad Omo Iya     Salaudeen Oyewale     Ahmed Alhasssan     Sa\'ad Alanamu     Firdaos Amasa     Yoonus Lawal     Labaeka     Suleman Abubakar     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     George Funsho Adebayo     Rafiu Ajakaye     Metro Park     Taiwo Joseph     Abdulrosheed Okiki     NYSC     Makama Of Kaiama     Esinniobiwa Quareeb     Sabitiyu Grillo     Harrison Osauwagboe     Yahaya Abdulkareem     Old Oyo     Azeez Bello     Oniye     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Ekiti     Bibire Ajape     Magaji Erubu     Sa\'adu Salau     Kayode Oyin-Zubair     Plat Technologies Limited     Ahmed Bayero     Jumoke Monsura Gafar     Babatunde Ishola Babaita     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Kwara Restoration Project     Femi Oladiji     Oluwole Dupe     Lateef Fagbemi     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Owu Fall     IsDB     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Convocation Ceremonies     Yusuf Ali     Share-Tsaragi     Idofin     Dele Momodu     Mopelola Abdulmaliq-Bashir     KWSIEC     Sulyman Tejidini     Olaosebikan     Adaramaja     Agor Market     Azeez Salawu     Medview Airlines     Abiodun Abdulkareem     Oja-Oba     Olatunde Jare     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen     Idris Garuba     Sulaiman Gado     Raimi Iyanda     Ibrahim Bio     Madawaki     Saheed Akinwumi     Oluranti Idowu     Bahago     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     Sola Saraki University     Alliance For Democracy     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     Kulende-UITH