Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has expressed the Federal Government’s commitment to revitalising the primary healthcare centres nationwide with the provision of nutrition services.
Osinbajo stated this in his keynote address during a virtual conference on nutrition.
He stated that the national budgetary allocation for nutrition is focused on fortification, transportation of nutrition products and behavioural change in order to achieve the aim of the fight against severe acute malnutrition in the country.
“The Federal Government is focused on a new multi-sectoral plan of action to tackle challenges in the nutrition sector to ensure that it achieves the desired positive impact,” said Osinbajo, who chairs the National Nutrition Committee.
The Vice President commended the Aisha Buhari Foundation for its contribution to the fight against severe acute malnutrition in the country saying that the First Lady, Aisha Buhari has demonstrated her role as a good mother of the nation.
Addressing the nutrition conference, the founder of the Aisha Buhari Foundation and the First Lady of Nigeria stressed the importance of the fight against severe acute malnutrition in the country saying that that is the only way the future of the country will be secured.
The First Lady, who was represented by the Wife of the Vice President, Dolapo Osinbajo, tasked all stakeholders in the nutrition sector to intensify efforts at ensuring that everything needed to win the fight is available.
The organiser of the virtual conference on Nutrition, Moji Makanjuola, stressed the need for government and nutrition stakeholders in the country to come to terms with the reality of the devastating effect of severe acute malnutrition and the need to stand up to fight it.
Makanjuola, who is the Coordinator of International Society for Media in Public Health, declared that all hands must be on deck until the last malnourished child in the country was adequately taken care of and was not allowed to die
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