The high powered committee recently set up by Gombe State Governor, Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya, to ensure adequate coverage of immunisation in all parts of the state, has been inaugurated on Wednesday. The intergovernmental committee is to be chaired by the Deputy Governor, Dr Manasseh Daniel Jatau, and some other senior government officials to see to it that everything needed to be done to ensure wide coverage of immunisation across the state was done. While inaugurating two committees expected to strengthen the health system and ensure a departure from the poor health indices, Governor Inuwa Yahaya, said that it was part of the administration’s commitment towards improving the wellbeing of the people of the state through better health services and infrastructural facilities for the socio-economic development of the State. It will be recalled that officials of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) had recently told the governor that the National Demographic Health Survey (NDHS) had shown that the health indices of the state were poor and among the worst in the country. The immediate past governor, Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, had approved the sum of N15.1 million for the rehabilitation of the dilapidated cold store after several advocacy visits but funds are yet to be released.

Source: Nigerian Tribune February 19, 2020 17:58 UTC