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A bold initiative towards addressing malnutrition in the first 1,000 days of a child’s life from conception has been launched in Gombe State through a collaboration with the United Nations Children’s ...
News Nigeria » Gombe » Health: Gombe Govt enrolls 1,000 Almajiri children into health insurance scheme
The children otherwise called “Almajiri” in the northern part of Nigeria, are pupils of non-formal Qur’anic schools. The state deputy governor, Manassah Jatau said this during the inauguration of the ...
News Nigeria » Gombe » Health: Health agencies set to distribute 2m doses of NTDs drug in Bauchi, Gombe, Jigawa
The states also scaled up sensitisation activities and trained health personnel to enhance surveillance, detection and treatment of the disease. The health officials stated this in separate interviews ...
News Nigeria » Gombe » Health: Ensuring Universal Health Coverage in Gombe
Three years after his inauguration, landmark and remarkable achievements have been recorded placing Gombe state popularly called "Sahel in the Savannah" in a position of light and as one of the fasted ...
News Nigeria » Gombe » Health: Nigeria: The Health Sector Interventions
With a mortality of 12 per cent, hundreds of Nigerians die annually from snakebites, yet authorities in the health sector have for years not taken the challenge seriously. For this reason, the ...
News Nigeria » Gombe » Health: Gombe, UNICEF launch N1bn intervention for malnourished children
The Gombe State government and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have unveiled a N1 billion intervention aimed at tackling acute malnutrition among children across the state. The ...
News Nigeria » Gombe » Health: Nigeria at 60, Gombe at 24: The gains and constraints
As Nigeria celebrates its 60th Independence anniversary, Gombe State is also reflecting on its 24 years of its existence. Ismaila Misilli examines the challenges of development confronting the state ...
News Nigeria » Gombe » Health: Revisiting the state of health sector in Gombe
Immediately after he was sworn into office in May 2019, Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya visited the state general hospital. Not impressed by what he saw, he had to declare a state of emergency in the ...