William Attah, Gombe
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to 36 Primary Health Care facilities in Gombe and Akko Local Government Areas of Gombe State.
Making the presentation at the different facilities through the Planned Parenthood Federation of Nigeria (PPFN), the Clinic Officer of PPFN, Mrs. Bathsheba Kalla said they were mandated to do the distribution of the equipment in 36 facilities in the two LGAs.
She explained that the distribution of the PPEs was important and well appreciated at this time of the second wave of the COVID-19.
She enumerated the equipment supplied to include a pack each of surgical gloves, examination gloves, eye Google for protection of those in the maternities from splashes of blood or other fluids and face masks.
She commended the UNFPA for the intervention at different times of challenges in various facilities saying, “it was a welcome response to our cries”.
She cautioned the facility managers against hoarding or diverting the equipment to other uses and also appealed to the UNFPA to extend the intervention to other facilities in other Local Government Areas.
Umar Usman Mohammed, Primary Health Care Director in Gombe Local Government Area, said before the intervention, they were lacking the equipment even when there is an upsurge in the cases of COVID-19 in the State.
He said, with these supplies now, the workers are being reimbursed and their stores restocked, which will enable them take the campaign down to the grassroots.
Mubarakatu Abdullahi, in Kumo PHC, Akko LGA while receiving the donation for her facility, said the facility will remain grateful for the intervention which is coming at the right time.
In Bogo PHC, Akko LGA, the facility manager, Mohammed Umar Lawanti said, the support will greatly help them in protecting themselves from the impact of COVID-19, thus, reducing the pandemic in the State.
