Qua’an-Pan Local Government Area of Plateau has begun drug revolving schemes at some designated primary health-care clinics in the area.
The Council Chairman, Mr Ernest Da’a, said when he received the implementation group on Friday that the gesture would make essential drugs available and affordable to residents in the area.
Da’a stated that one of the cardinal plans of his administration was to bring cheap but quality health-care service to the doorsteps of the rural dwellers and sued for support from stakeholders.
The chairman commended the council’s social mobilisation committee on health-related programmes for its selfless services.
He particularly thanked the committee for mobilising parents and guardians to ensure that their children and wards received recommended vaccines.
Da’a pledged the council’s readiness to support the committee’s programmes
The Chairman, Social Mobilisation Committee, Mr Ignatius Dadel, said that its mission was to come and congratulate the new Council leadership for the victory at the last Local Government Council polls.
Dadel explained that the committee was instrumental to resolving issues relating to vaccines rejections in different communities.
Outgoing Deputy Director, Primary Health-Care Department, Mrs Lydia Emmanuel, and the Social Mobilisation Officer, Mr Selnan Bahal, observed that the major challenge faced by the committee was finance.
They said that finance the committee needed for advocacy and enlightenment especially in organising ceremonies to inaugurate immunisation programmes was always not there. (NAN)
