Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf has vowed to deploy necessary measures to mitigate the cause of the increasing level of maternal and child mortality and malnutrition crisis in Kano.

Yusuf unveiled a new Multiple Micronutrients Supplement (MMS) Centre at Kumbotso, a local government area in Kano state to curtail the health burden.

Similarly, the governor flagged off a routine immunization programme and distribution of computers for health management and data capturing across the 484 wards of Kano state.

The programme implemented under IMPACT Health, a World Bank-supported project, is targeted at Immunisation plus malaria progress, malnutrition coverage, and transforming services in Kano.

While unveiling the three-in-one project, Yusuf worried about the neglect of routine immunization and the mortality rate of maternal health in Kano, which provoked a needless health burden in the state.

Yusuf disclosed the commitment to sustain partnerships with international donors to address the scourge of mortality on the health population and added that his administration has committed over 30 per cent of the 2025 fiscal appropriation in the health sector to reduce the challenges.

Yusuf hinted at the approval for the enrollment of sick cell patients and inmates of correctional centres for free medical care under the state health insurance scheme.

Earlier, Commissioner for Health, Dr. Abubakar Labaran Yusuf, said the state government released over N167 million to a reactive treatment center for the management of children with severe acute malnutrition.

The Commissioner revealed that the present administration also increased funding for drug supply to the state’s health facilities from 30 percent to 96 percent.

He blamed the immediate past administration for the zero-dose immunisation that led to an increasing number of diphtheria and other communal diseases in Kano.

On his part, IMPACT Program Manager, Dr. Muhammad Nura Yahaya, explained that the project is mandated to ensure routine immunisation, reproductive, child, and maternal health and improve stillbirth in primary healthcare centers in the state.