Kaduna State has been selected as the best
performing state in the first phase of the 2015 Maternal, Newborn and
Child Health Week (MNCH).
A letter by the Country Director of the Joint United Nations Programme
on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Dr. Bilali Camara addressed to Governor Nasir
El-Rufai, said Kaduna State won the prize because its hospitals
counselled and tested 84,000 pregnant women for HIV during the period,
and referred those that tested positive to a treatment facility.
UNAIDS stressed that the state advanced the objective to eliminate
mother-to-child transmission of HIV and pledged $14,000 to support
Kaduna State in the next phase of the MNCH Week.
The state’s healthcare system also got a boost as MTN Foundation
selected five state hospitals to benefit from its maternity ward support
project (MWSP).
The hospitals, according to a statement by the media assistant to the
governor, Samuel Aruwan, are, Yusuf Dantsoho Hospital, Kaduna, General
Hospital, Kafanchan, Jubrin Maigari Hospital, Birnin-Gwari, Hajiya Gambo
Sawaba Hospital, Zaria and the Dabo Lere Memorial Hospital, Saminaka.
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