By Rabiu Sani
Malammadori – The Sultan Foundation for Peace and Development, a Non Governmental Organisation, on Thursday said it initiated training programmes to tackle maternal and infant mortality and malnutrition in rural communities.
The Programme Manager, Alhaji Aminu Inuwa, said this at a one-day training on safe motherhood organised by the foundation for community leaders in Malammadori Local Government Area of Jigawa.
Inuwa said that the training was to create awareness on the need for women to be encouraged to access antenatal and reproductive healthcare services in communities.
He added that the training was designed to expose the participants to the best medical practices to enhance healthcare delivery at the grassroots.
“The exercise is aimed at exposing community leaders to modern healthcare services that can control maternal mortality and improve reproductive and family health,” he said.
The programme manager said that the foundation also planned to train community leaders on data keeping.
“This is to enhance support services that will improve the health status of pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers and children.”
He called on community leaders to sensitise their followers to the need to allow their women visit antenatal clinics during pregnancy.
Alhaji Musa Ibrahim, the District Head of Garingabas, hailed the gesture, saying that it would go a long way to enhance healthcare services at the grassroots.
Ibrahim appealed to men in communities to encourage their pregnant wives to visit hospitals so as to save mother and child from pregnancy-related complications.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that about 100 people attended the workshop.