Adedapo Adesanya
By Adedapo Adesanya
The Kano State Government, through its COVID-19 taskforce technical committee, has introduced a home-based care program to reach people in remote areas as part of efforts to curtail the spread of the pandemic.
This was made known in a statement from the state Primary Health Care Management Board and signed by its Information Officer, Mr Maikudi Marafa, on Saturday.
According to the state Commissioner of Health, Dr Aminu Tsanyawa, who launched the program on Saturday, efforts have been made to curtail the second wave of the pandemic.
The Commissioner stressed that health personnel had been trained and provided with motorcycles and medications to reach hard to reach areas, with a view to rendering home care health emergency services.
“Dr Tsanyawa charged the health workers mandated with the task, to be more committed to the discharge of their assignment,” the statement said.
The statement further revealed that the State Coordinator of the task force committee, and also the Executive Secretary State Primary Health care Management Board, Dr Tijjani Hussain, said that the scheme would use community target sampling.
Dr Hussaini also highlighted that the program was aimed at rendering emergency services to people in hard to reach communities of the state.
He commended the state government for its support to the task force committee, in its effort towards eradicating the pandemic in the state, the statement noted.
The statement further disclosed that Dr Hussaini has appealed to the people in the state to give all the necessary support and cooperation to the health personnel, to achieve the goals of the programme.
Kano has the ninth highest prevalent rate of the disease with 3,646 cases recorded since with 3,342 recoveries and 100 deaths.
