By Daniel Atori & Mairo Allawa
Over one hundred nursing mothers have benefitted from the Niger State Accountability Mechanism (NISAM) free pampers’ diapers donation in Bosso local government area of the State.
This, according to the NiSAM team is part of activities to mark this year’s World Breastfeeding Week.
While addressing women from various Communities at the Primary Health Care facility, Dubbo in Bosso LGA, the Co-chairman of the NiSAM, Umar Sanda Dada said the organisation which is a civil society organisation (CSO) is saddled with the responsibilities around the maternal and child health care.
Speaking on the theme: Breastfeeding for a Sustainable start in life, Strengthening what works, Dada said “we agreed to visit this remote community because the women around the communities can not access healthcare until to travel several kilometres and the only PHC in their community has been under lock and not even in good shape.
“We are also donating over one hundred pieces of pampers diapers to nursing mothers for their children.”
Other members of the NiSAM who addressed the women charged them on the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding and how they can take advantage of locally processed foods like soya beans to ensure their children are not malnourished.
The group then appealed to the state government to fix the dilapidated roads which are not motorable, adding that “we will continue to appeal to the State Primary Health Care Development Agency and the Ministry of Health to renovate this facility, give them equipment like BP apparatus, child weighing scale, fix their laboratory and so on so that these women can have good health care service”.
Speaking also, the new Officer Incharge of the facility, Adama Alhassan while disclosing that she had just been posted to the facility appealed to the women to patronise the facility adding that “I will always be around”.
She added that, “we are the three heath workers and a volunteer. The strategy we are applying to ensure these women patronise the facility is “Home Visit and advocacy to the traditional and village heads”.
