Health

SDG Office Donates 100 Hospital Beds, Other Equipment to Oyo Govt.

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), on Monday, donated 100 hospital beds and other equipment to aid healthcare delivery in Oyo State.
While presenting the items received from the SDGs Office in the Presidency, Abuja, to the Oyo State Ministry of Health, the  Senior Special Assistant to Governor Seyi Makinde on Sustainable Development Goals, Hon. Kunle Yusuff, said that the items were received due to the cordial relationship between the  Oyo State SDGs Office and the Office of the OSSAP at the Presidency.
During the presentation held at the Ministry of Health’s premises, Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, Yusuff explained that the items were meant to cushion the negative effects of COVID-19 and to fulfil the Goal 3 of SDGs in ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all.
He applauded the Governor Seyi Makinde-led administration for building his policies and programmes around the  17 Global Goals of SDGs, using his four pillars.
In his response, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Bode Ladipo, appreciated the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for the donation, stating that the items will be judiciously distributed to the health facilities in need.
He added that the Ministry will continually appreciate any assistance that will bring improvement to both primary health centres and state hospitals.
In his remarks, the Chairman, State Implementation Committee of SDGs and Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Prof. Musbau Babatunde, explained that the present administration in Oyo State is committed to delivering quality health service to the people, because it “believes that the healthier the people, the wealthier the state.”
Babatunde, who hinted that at least one Primary Healthcare Centre has been has been remodeled in each of the 351 Wards of the 33 Local Governments in the state, maintained that upgrading primary health care delivery would allow citizens of the state to have high standards of living while mortality and morbidity rates would be kept low.
The event had in attendance the chairman, Hospitals Management Board, Dr. Gbola Adetunji; permanent secretaries, Executive Secretaries and host of other state functionaries.
Signed
Taiwo Adisa
Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde
March 28, 2022.

Economy

Delta Commits 600 Million Naira to SDGs

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The Delta State Government has committed the sum of six hundred million naira in counterpart funds to attract the same amount from the World Bank and United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, SDG.

Delta State Commissioner for Information Mr. Charlse Aniagwu, stated this at the Government House, Asaba, at the end of the State Executive Council meeting.

Mr. Aniagwu noted that the total of one point two billion naira would enable the state to implement key SDG programmes in the health and education sectors, including peace and security initiatives and gender equality.

The Commissioner for Information also mentioned the endorsement of over four hundred and fifty million naira promised to the state’s representatives at the Edo 2020 National Sports Festival, with the aim to maintain its dominance in the sports sector.

He mentioned that the State Exco also approved a new policy for the siting of gas plants and petroleum stations in the state.

Oghenero Eghweree

Health

Nigeria Mortality Rate Falls below SDG Target- NPC Commissioner

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Reduction in the number of under five mortality rate from 201 per live birth in 2003 to 132 in 2018 in Nigeria has not met the sustainable development goal, SDG target of 12 per one thousand live birth. 

National population commission, NPC, Commissioner, Dr Eyitayo Oyetunji made this known during a virtual workshop on the “dissemination of the 2019 verbal and social autopsy, VASA, study report. 

Vasa survey is study by the NPC that seeks to ascertain the causes and determinants of under five mortality in Nigeria between  2013 to 2018. 

According to the VASA report, southwest Nigeria has the least in child mortality rate of twenty per one thousand live birth while the Northwest has the highest figure with one hundred and seventeen. 

Dr. Oyetunji who stressed the need for policy makers and stakeholders in the health sector to do more on further decline of the menace said the report will serve as guide for effective planning

Dr. Oyetunji said the data will be presented in a simple and user friendly manner to facilitate its utilization by a wide range of stakeholders. 

Mosope Kehinde