Niger State’s Ministry for Primary Health Care has announced that, in response to an increase in reported cases of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) in children, the state is making a concentrated effort to enhance nutrition stabilisation centres’ life-saving services and lower the morbidity and mortality rates linked to SAM.
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During a training session for healthcare personnel at the State Training Centre, Commissioner Ibrahim Ahmed Dangana made this statement. In light of this new information, he added, the ministry has introduced a Training of Trainers program for the management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in-patient care in partnership with Anrin 1.0.
As he put it, the Niger State Government is leading an effort to train all medical professionals to properly handle SAM crises.
“The training is timely,” Dangana said. To better equip medical personnel to battle the increasing incidence of acute malnutrition in the state, it is in line with Muhammad Umaru Bago’s New Niger Agenda.
Mohammed Gana, the Permanent Secretary, had already brought attention to the cross-sectoral effort to combat malnutrition.
In order to assure that impacted children receive high-quality treatment, he restated the state government’s steadfast commitment to training healthcare professionals.
Supporting the program, Dtn. Asmau Mohammed Abubakar, the state nutrition officer, said that the training’s goal is to improve healthcare personnel’ knowledge and abilities.
Treatment outcomes might be greatly affected, according to Asmau, unless carers are involved and given thorough nutrition counselling.
The training modules, according to main facilitator Suleiman Abdullahi, are centred around SAM diagnosis and treatment, following World Health Organisation (WHO) criteria.