UNICEF donates $439,000 drugs, hospital consumables to Borno, Yobe

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has donated $438,973 worth of drugs and other medical consumables to improve maternal, neo-natal and child survival in Borno and Yobe states.

According to UNICEF, distribution of the drugs was to strengthen health delivery to pregnant women, newborn and under-five children.

Presenting the drugs, yesterday, in Damaturu, Yobe State, UNICEF Chief of Maiduguri Field Office, Phuong Nguyen, disclosed that each day of insurgency, 170 lives of children are lost through various causes of conflicts in North East.

Her words: “We will also provide additional $0.5 million to support the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Primary Healthcare in the two states.”

She, however; lamented that women and children had borne the highest cost of the conflict during the over a decade conflict, adding that the ongoing conflict reduced access to healthcare in the two states.

“But the availability of drugs and consumables at primary healthcare centres could enable the women receive essential drugs, tests and other basic medical support of the United Nations agency,” she said.