By Fatima Mohammed-Lawal
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), in collaboration with the Kwara Government have targeted over 100,000 pregnant women for the integrated health intervention campaign in the state.
Mrs Chinwe Ezeife, the Nutrition Specialist, UNICEF Kaduna Field Office stated this on Monday in Ilorin while speaking at the flag-off of the 2025 Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) Week across the 16 Local Government Area.
She explained that the programme is a weeklong activity from June 24 to Friday 27, adding that over 753,000 children of six to 59 months old will receive Vitamin A Supplement and 662,000 children of 12 to 59 months will receive dewormer.
The Nutrition Specialist for UNICEF stated that health intervention also includes Human Papilloma Virus
(HPV) immunization for female children of nine years, adding that it is targeting 80 percent of coverage across the 16 LGAs.
“This is a platform through which we deliver multiple-micro nutrients supplement to pregnant women and also children would be administered Vitamin A and Dewormers.
“In addition we will demonstrate proper way of hand washing because water hygiene and sanitation is part of MNCH child protection,” she said.
Ezeife enjoined pregnant mothers and caregivers to bring their children for the integrated health programme for optimal health.
She also commended the state government’s intervention in the healthcare sector.
Also speaking with newsmen, Dr Nusirat Elelu, the Executive Secretary of the Primary HealthCare Development Agency, explained that about 50,000 young girls will benefit the HPV vaccination.
She described the MNCH week as an intensive high impact, low cost interventions in all the designated health centres across the Kwara.
