Abuja – Dr Patrick Dakum, the Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria (IHVN) has urged participants at a Global Fund Malaria Programme Review Meeting in Bwari, FCT, to explore new ways to prevent people from dying of malaria.
This is contained in a statement issued by the Institute’s Communications Manager, Mr Dennis Mordi in Abuja.
Mordi also quoted Dakum as reminding participants at the two-day maiden meeting, who came from the central and regional offices of the Institute that “our work contributes to saving lives, therefore, every process of preventing malaria and treating patients with this ailment must be done properly.
“It must be done properly, beginning from community engagements, disease eradication and treatment to accurate capturing of data to show evidence of work done.’’
The IHVN boss said that the review meeting was meant to educate and involve key programme personnel in all aspects of implementing the Global Fund Malaria programme in the treatment sites that IHVN was supporting.
He added that participants should strive to understand all the tools needed for continuous improvement of quality service delivery.[pro_ad_display_adzone id=”70560″]
Mrs Iheoma Ekeigwe, the IHVN Coordinator, Global Fund Malaria Programme, said that the two days forum was aimed at bringing the Institute’s Global Fund team up to speed with the expectations of the grant.
She added that “all aspects of the grant implementation, quality parametres and expertise were harnessed through resourceful facilitators from the key departments involved in oversight of the malaria grant.’’
She explained that the participants were equipped to implement skill and direction for better collaboration, improved programme quality and guided financial and compliance processes in the discharge of their responsibilities.
According to her, it is important for the Institute to enhance its performance on the grant.
Participants at the meeting were made up of medical doctors, nurses, pharmacists, strategic information programme officers, compliance and accounting officers.
They were drawn from treatment sites and hospitals in Kano, Jigawa, Kogi, Benue, Katsina, Nasarawa and the Federal Capital Territory.
One of the participants from Jigawa, Mr Bello Bello, said that the knowledge gained would be useful to Jigawa State because it was a new state factored in the new funding model of the Global Fund.
He added that “I am now equipped to engage the state on the ownership of the project.’’
Another participant, Farida Maiadua from Katsina State said “the review meeting was an interesting experience for me because I learnt a lot, especially the pathophysiology of malaria, methods of malaria identification and treatment.
“I also learnt a lot about data capturing and proper documentation.’’
Also, the Global Fund IHVN Manager in Kogi, Mr Ishaya Madaki, said the review had repositioned him with renewed zeal to put in his best to achieve the desired goal of the Global Fund. (NAN)