The Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) has commenced the implementation of its nutrition flagship programme tagged: ‘Aliko Dangote Foundation Integrated Nutrition (ADFIN) programme in Kano State’.

According to the ADF’s Director of Health and Nutrition, Dr. Francis Aminu, the programme is in line with the plan to use the newly refurbished Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) across five pilot LGAs as outpatient care (OPC) and inpatient care (IPC) components of the Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) services for the programme.

Meanwhile, no fewer than 30 health workers have been trained in Kano. Aminu said “The purpose of the training was to equip the health workers with the requisite skills on how to assess, treat and care for malnourished children under the age of five. The 5-day training enabled participants to gain in-depth knowledge in line with the training requirements as stated in the National Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition Guidelines.”

He said the participants were drawn from the state Ministry of Health and the five ADFIN supported sites from Bebeji, Dala, Kura, Tudun Wada, and Rimin-Gado LGAs comprising Officers-in-Charge (OICs), Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs), Nutrition Focal Persons, Maternal and Child Health (MCH) coordinators, and Primary Health Care (PHC) coordinators. At the opening ceremony of the training, key development partners in Kano State participated and expressed their goodwill messages to ADF on the IMAM training. Participants included the representatives of Nutrition International (NI), Partners for Development (PfD), Civil Society for Scaling up Nutrition (CSSUN) Kano, and Nutrition Society of Nigeria (NSN), among others. This Day