SAFAR 25 1431 A.H.
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 9, 2010.
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Kiru tasks parents on girl-child education
KANO state commissioner for health, Malama Aisha Isyaku Kiru has stressed the need for parents at rural areas to support their female wards acquire higher education in order to fill in the quota needed for adequate nurses and midwives at the grassroots.
The commissioner made the call last weekend at Fagwalawa Health Centre in Dambatta local government area while presenting hospital equipment to the centre.
Malama Kiru who spoke at length on the importance of female education for even development, added that with more educated women at the rural areas, the menace of maternal and child mortality could be reduced to the barest minimum.
On the hospital equipment, the commissioner explained that more than 53 hospitals and primary health centres have so far benefited from the gesture which is aimed at improving healthcare services in the state.
She revealed that the programme is a continuous one and also urged the staff to judiciously use the items as a monitoring committee has been set up to monitor the usage.
Earlier in his welcome address, the officer in-charge of the hospital, Alhaji Sabo Galadima appreciated the gesture which he said will serve as a moral booster to the staff to redouble their efforts in discharging their duties.
Also contributing, a community leader in Fagwalawa who is also an executive council member of ANPP, Alhaji Yakubu Ibrahim had commended the commissioner for choosing Fagwalawa as one of the benefiting centres.
He also appealed to the ministry to provide a standby generator and a transformer to the hospital.
