The kick-off batch of the training, which ended a week ago, was attended by PMs and ZTOs from fifteen states, including Osun, Ebonyi, Jigawa, Cross river, Kaduna, Plateau, Ekiti, Anambra, FCT, Bayelsa, Kebbi, Katsina, Gombe, Taraba, Bauchi.
Key areas of skill acquisition in the workshop include demand generation and community engagement strategies for reproductive, maternal, new born, child and adolescent health plus nutrition (RMNCAH+N), strategies for implementing optimized maternal, new born and child health week, setting up and operationalization of maternal, new born and child emergency transport scheme, methods for institutionalizing health data quality assurance and service quality utilization, access tracking system.
It would be recalled that NPHCDA, which championed the successful eradication of polio in Nigeria, recently trained over two thousand health workers nationwide on COVID-19 preparedness and response.
source: Leadership