By Adamu IMAM, Bauchi
UNICEF Encourages Bauchi Health Workers to Improve on Duty
By Adamu IMAM, Bauchi 20th Feb, 2025
The United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF Bauchi Field Office BFO encouraged Bauchi health workers to Improve on their responsibility display professionality while saving lives of patients especially women and children.
The Bauchi Chief Field Officer Dr. Nuzhat Rafique made her expression known during the two day state lawmakers engagement on adequate budgetary appropriation for nutrition intervention and advocacy sensitization meeting held in Jos the Plateau state capital.
Nuzhat Rafique made the expression while addressing Lawmakers from the State on Adequate budgetary Appropriation for Nutrition Intervention during a Two - day Advocacy and Sensitization meeting that held in Jos, Plateau state.
While sharing her experiences she maintained that, "I am sorry to say, in my experience of 12 countries, what I saw in the health facility in front of me, they had the audacity to cut the date and change it from November to December and showed the number of patients they carried out hemoglobin level test."
"Everything we do for mother and children, is a testimony, this life we are living is a test by God, it is nothing because nobody knows tomorrow, whether we will be here or not, it is only our actions that will stay and go with us" she emphasized.
Meanwhile, on the lawmakers Nuzhat Rafique called on them to commit more to make child Nutrition funding part of their constituency projects in order to address the problem of malnutrition in children in the state.
She said that the Child Nutrition Fund (CNF) is an initiative designed to support government efforts in some countries that carry the highest number of children suffering from the problem of malnutrition, adding that Nigeria is one of the countries where there are high number of malnourished chidren because of it's large population.
According to her, CNF is an initiative that give state governments the ownership of funding nutrition through a counterpart funding to match UNICEF contribution in the same sum to the basket fund.
"If you put N100 million, we will match N100, so N200 million will reach the children. We work on prevention, cure and rehabilitation of the children under nutrition to help set up a society where no child should suffer from malnutrition." She added.
"Children suffering so much from malnutrition can be rehabilitated, so this is so sensitive and I will like all of you to feel from the heart.You have to be fathers to children in your constituencies, literally this is your accountability."
She stressed that, "the most important thing is to start thinking of how much you can commit, what I suggest is that, if I was in your place, with the support from UNICEF, we can identify in our Constituencies where the highest number of malnutrished children are. You should go around and see, we have the data for bauchi state and it is one of the worst state suffering from malnutrition."
'So in your constituencies, live as if it is your last day in your constituency, this is how i live my life every day, I feel that I may not be here tomorrow. We will not have the feeling to do anything wrong if we live with this mindset. So this is the lesson I have learnt in my 35 years in public health" Rafique maintained.
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