19 northern governors urged to team-up against maternal, child mortality
The 19 northern governors have been advised to adopt the Community Health Information Management System (CHIMS) introduced by Plan International Nigeria in order to reduce maternal and child mortality among marginalized and vulnerable women in their respective states. The Head of Health Programme of the Plan International Nigeria, Dr Kabiru Atta made the call Wednesday during his presentation at […]
The 19 northern governors have been advised to adopt the Community Health Information Management System (CHIMS) introduced by Plan International Nigeria in order to reduce maternal and child mortality among marginalized and vulnerable women in their respective states.
The Head of Health Programme of the Plan International Nigeria, Dr Kabiru Atta made the call Wednesday during his presentation at the 61st National Council on Health Meeting currently going on in Kano state.
Dr Atta said the organization is currently working with the federal and state government as well as communities supporting them in advancing the children’s rights and quality for girls in the health sub-sector.
He said, “Plan International Nigeria is partnering with federal ministry of health, Bauchi and Sokoto states supporting them to achieve advanced health rights for boys and girls especially the marginalized and vulnerable ones. We have introduced Community Health Information Management System (CHIMS) in Bauchi and Sokoto in 2017 and the system is yielding positive results.
“In Sokoto for instance, we are implementing the Strengthening Health Outcomes for Women and Children (SHOW) project, while in Bauchi we have Bauchi Opportunities for Reproductive Neonatal and Maternal Health (BORN) and both were aimed at improving the health of people.”
Dr Atta assured that the system was improving access to health data, accountability and decision making in the health sector.
He therefore, appealed to state governments and other development partners to patronize the tool in order to make health information available online for anybody to use for effective decision making and
improved accountability in the health sector.
He said the Plan International Nigeria would soon expand its operation to cover the whole country, lamenting that lack of accurate health data at the community level was affecting the country’s efforts in making universal health coverage for all Nigerians.