Routine immunization: Partnership advocates for long term financing plan

The Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health at Scale (PACFaH@Scale) an intervention aimed at contributing to strengthening the Nigerian health system has revealed that one of the major problems of routine immunization has been lack of plan for long term financing from domestic sources and over reliance on foreign funds. Kano state project […]

The Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health at Scale (PACFaH@Scale) an intervention aimed at contributing to strengthening the Nigerian health system has revealed that one of the major problems of routine immunization has been lack of plan for long term financing from domestic sources and over reliance on foreign funds.

Kano state project director, Professor Haruna Wakili stated this during a two-day workshop on advocacy for childhood killer diseases held at Aminu Kano Centre for Democracy Research and Training Mambayya House.

According to him, other areas that requires effective advocacy for positive result achievement include child spacing, child killer diseases and primary healthcare under one roof initiative.

“Recent findings have shown a great deal of issues that needs to be addressed in respect to child and family health, records have shown that a greater percentage of innocent lives of children below the age of five is being lost due to preventable diseases. That is why we feel there is the need for something to be done which entails bringing together all stakeholders on board to face the issue squarely,” said Professor Wakili.

Discussing the child killer diseases Dr.Rayyan M. Garba stresses that there is a need for all parties concerned to advocate for complete adaptation new treatment processes and also to improve knowledge of the burden of diarrhoeal disease and pneumonia in children and the role of  Zinc/ORS and dispersible Amoxicillin for treatment as adopted by World Health Organization (WHO).