COVID-19: NGO, health ministry support FCT PHCs

An NGO, Health Strategy and Delivery Foundation (HSDF), in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health, has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to 54 Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as part of efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19. Presenting the items to the FCT Administration (FCTA), representative of the […]

An NGO, Health Strategy and Delivery Foundation (HSDF), in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health, has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to 54 Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as part of efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Presenting the items to the FCT Administration (FCTA), representative of the Chief Executive Officer of HSDF, Dr. Christine Ezenwafor, said the foundation, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health, with funding from the World Diabetes Foundation (WDF), was implementing a project called Diabetes Awareness and Care Project (DACP) in the FCT and Imo State.

Dr. Ezenwafor said the project which was being piloted in two states was kicked off in the FCT in July, 2019, following the training of health workers from 54 health facilities in the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) and Bwari Area Council.

“The DACP aims to improve health outcomes by strengthening evidence-based programming and policy-making through the utilisation of various approaches like advocacy to multiple stakeholders, education at the community level, sensitisation of health workers, guideline development, training and performance management to improve access to diabetes prevention and care services.

“One of the objectives of the project is to train health workers across selected PHCs to deliver education on diabetes and conduct screening across communities in the FCT. The health facilities were provided with necessary equipment and tools in line with the project. We are working in 54 PHCs across AMAC and Bwari.

“We have been working for over a year now. The project is on diabetes and awareness creation in rural communities. So, as part of our response to COVID-19, we are providing PPEs to all the 54 health facilities so that work can go on unhindered. This will be routinely provided on a quarterly basis”.

Receiving the items on behalf of the FCTA, the FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, thanked the donors for contributing to the development of rural health facilities in the territory, stressing that the two area councils in focus were the most densely populated in the nation’s capital.