Gombe inaugurated two committee on save one million live in the state

Gombe inaugurated two committee on save one million live in the state

BY AUWAL AHMAD Gombe state Ministry of Health in collaboration with Save the Children International has inaugurated two committee on the Saving One Million lives Programme for Results (SOML-P for R) in the state with aim of improving the lives of mothers and children. The state Commissioner of Health Dr. Kennedy Ishaya while speaking during the inauguration ceremony in Gombe on Tuesday, said that the two committee are state steering committee on operationalization of National Health Act and Saving one million lives programme for result. According to the Commissioner “The Programme would bring change in the way health business done by focusing on result and governance”. He said that the programme being funded from a N140 billion ($500 million) World Bank credit, was negotiated by the Federal Government from which $1.5million had been disbursed to states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to drive the delivery of the programme and enable states address legacy issues Our Correspondent reported that programme expected to deliver high impact, evidence-based and cost effective health interventions based on six ‘pillars’, namely: Maternal, newborn and child health, childhood essential medicines and increase treatment of important childhood diseases, improve child nutrition, immunisation malaria control and the elimination of mother to child transmission (EMTCT) of HIV. And initiative was not new, but that it would give a new lease of life to the National Strategic Health Development Plan (NSHDP) and State Strategic Health Development Plans (SHDPs) through innovative financing mechanism. The field Manager Save the Children Ms. Altine Lewi urged stakeholders to imbibe the culture of performance-based programming so that results could be achieved within a short time.