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NSCC-NPHDA Sign MOU for Better Healthcare Delivery for Senior Citizens
NSCC-NPHDA Sign MOU for Better Healthcare Delivery for Senior Citizens
By: Michael Mike
The National Senior Citizens Centre (NSCC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Primary Health Care Development Agency on achieving Integrated Care for Older Persons, Mainstreaming Geriatric Care and Geriatric Home Help into Primary care system in Nigeria.
This is the outcome of a two-day National Workshop on Integrated Care for Older Persons Organized by the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency in collaboration with the National Senior Citizens Centre (NSCC) with support from the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Chairman forum of Executive Secretaries of State Primary Healthcare Development Agencies also endorsed the memorandum of Understanding on behalf of the States.
Director General of the National Senior Citizens Centre, Dr. Emem Omokaro said with the multi-partnership achieved, there will now be a robust and inclusive healthcare delivery model for senior citizens in Nigeria across the tiers of government.
Omokaro said the sustained demand on the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHDA) are to capture geriatric assessment and care for older persons, train primary health care workers on care for older people, provide sensitization on healthy lifestyle and nutrition for senior citizens and a technical working group on older people to be established for improved collaboration.
She said the National Primary Health Care Development Agency is central to the mandate of the National Senior Citizens Centre of bringing health care to the door steps of the people, including the senior citizens in all communities not minding where they reside mostly as a greater percentage of older people live in rural communities and hard to reach locations.
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An official statement by the Head, Public Affairs, Media and Communication of the National Senior Citizens Centre, Mr. Omini Oden assured that renewed care for senior citizens is key to reducing morbidity rate in the country and in the front burner to be explored for the older people include control of non-communicable diseases such as hypertension, testing for cancer, Alzheimer diseases and other complications.
The statement further said that the NSCC Director General is optimistic that attention for older persons’ healthcare needs in the communities by the NPHDA is better assured while also taking care of reproductive maternal newborn and child health concerns.
The statement recalled that the health and wellbeing of senior citizens have not really been in the forefront of health and social welfare intervention programs before now, giving kudos to the Federal Government under the current dispensation for reversing the trend by creating the National Senior Citizens Centre to bridge the gap.
NSCC-NPHDA Sign MOU for Better Healthcare Delivery for Senior Citizens
ISWAP Terrorists Kill Hunters’ Leader in Borno
By: Zagazola Makama
Suspected ISWAP terrorists have killed the chairman of the hunters’ group in Garjang village, Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State.
Sources told Zagazola Makama that the incident occurred at about 5 a.m. on Sunday.
The victim, identified as Habu Dala, 53, was abducted from his home by the terrorists, who took him through Mulharam to Forfot villages in Damboa LGA.
Villagers mobilised in search of Dala and later found his corpse bearing gunshot wounds.
Troops of Operation HADIN KAI, members of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), and the hunters’ group visited the scene.
The remains were evacuated to the General Hospital, Damboa, where he was certified dead and later released to his family for burial in accordance with Islamic rites.
ISWAP Terrorists Kill Hunters’ Leader in Borno
Nine Injured in Kwali Farmers–Herders Clash
By: Zagazola Makama
Nine persons sustained machete injuries in a clash between Bassa farmers and Fulani herders in Gomoni Village, Kwali Area Council of the FCT.
Sources told Zagazola Makama that the fight, which broke out on Aug. 9 at about 3:30 p.m., followed alleged destruction of melon and maize farms belonging to the Bassa community by cattle.
It was gathered that the Nigeria army troops
along with joint team of operatives, and vigilantes were deployed to the scene following a distress call.
Six Bassa and three Fulani victims with varying degrees of machete cuts were taken to Rhema Foundation Hospital, Kwali, for treatment.
Authorities confirmed that the situation had been brought under control and normalcy restored, while investigation was ongoing.
Nine Injured in Kwali Farmers–Herders Clash
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VP Shettima Attends Wedding Fatiha Of Aisha Shehu Aliyu and Muhammad Jalal Babangida Aliyu
VP Shettima Attends Wedding Fatiha Of Aisha Shehu Aliyu and Muhammad Jalal Babangida Aliyu
By: Our Reporter
Vice President Kashim Shettima on Saturday attended the wedding fatiha of Aisha, daughter of Shehu Aliyu, an Executive Director with First Bank of Nigeria, and Muhammad Jalal, son of former Niger State Governor, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, Talban Minna, at the National Mosque, Abuja.
The solemnisation, led by the Chief Imam of the National Mosque, Dr. Muhammad Kabir Adam, alongside other Imams, featured prayers for the couple’s blessings.
Vice President Shettima stood in for the bride, while Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu represented the groom, culminating in the presentation of the dowry and the formal tying of the marital knot.
The event was graced by prominent dignitaries, including former Vice President Namadi Sambo, former Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido, Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, former Kaduna State Governor Ahmed Makarfi, former Minister of Special Duties Kabiru Turaki, Katsina State Deputy Governor Faruk Lawal Jobe, the Emir of Borgu, Niger State, Muhammad Sani Dantoro among many others.
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