Taraba State Primary Health Care Development Agency says plans for the distribution of drugs worth over one hundred and fifty million naira to the sixteen local government areas of the state have been finalized.
The Executive Secretary of the Agency, Alhaji Aminu Jauro Hassan made this known in an exclusive interview with Radio Nigeria in Jalingo.
He said the drugs were purchased by the North East Development Commission (NEDC) in collaboration with Taraba State Government as part of Governor Darius Ishaku’s Rescue Mission Agenda of providing quality health care service delivery for the people of the state.
Hassan explained that the governor had directed the agency to distribute the drugs across all nooks and crannies of the LGAs after the festive season, pointed out that there were enough drugs and personnel at all the primary health care centers across the state.
According to him, the people of Taraba should look forward to the New year with a lot of hope and aspiration, as the agency is going to build on all the successes that it was able to achieve in the previous years and promised to transform into more success stories for the people to live a healthy life for them to be more productive.
Commenting on the just concluded integrated immunization which Taraba was among the few states that were selected to carry out, Alhaji Aminu Jauro Hassan described the exercise as successful, saying that the state was fully prepared for the exercise.
He said with the support from the federal government of technical staff from Abuja, the agency had reached an appreciable level of targeted eligible candidates across the 168 wards of the state.
“For the measles vaccination, the target eligible candidates are pupils from the ages of 9 months to 59 months, for pupils that we vaccinated with meningitis are those from ages 7-8 years while for those we vaccinated with Yellow fever are people from the ages of 7-45 years, so the target varies, but above all, we have succeeded in vaccinating over 99% of our target eligible candidates with the vaccines.
“Although we had some challenges based on what we call ‘Poor Micro Planning’ in Kurmi and Wukari LGAs where the micro plan has not given us the true reflection of several people in those areas but we working to ensure that we streamline that it gives us the true reflection. Those are the only local governments that we had low town out of vaccination exercise, but all the other LGAs that their micro plan was very effective and efficient, we have scored over 99% of vaccination exercise” Jauro revealed.
Sani Suleiman