- By Blessing Odega
AIDS Preventing Initiative in Nigeria (APIN) Public Health Initiative, has donated an electronic data surveillance dashboard and other items to the Plateau Ministry of Health.
Dr Solomon Wekpe, Head of Office, APIN Public Health Initiative in Jos, made the donation on Thursday in Jos.
Wekpe said the essence of the donation was to ensure that the ministry, particularly the commissioner for health, had access to real-time medical data, particularly APIN-related data.
He stated that the items were donated to support the ministry’s emergency response centre and to also be in turn with global best practices that would boost the health indices of the state.
Dr Cletus Shurkuk, Plateau Commissioner for Health, commended the organisation for the donation, which he described as apt.
Shurkuk said that the electronic data surveillance dashboard would enable the ministry to monitor and develop policies that would help improve the state’s health indicators.
He said the government was working assiduously to make the state a hub for medical tourism.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the other items donated by APIN were water dispensers, projects, printers, laptops, and oxygen cylinders.
Similarly, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) donated some medical consumables to the four designated hospitals that catered for victims of the July 12, 2024, All Saints Academy school building collapse in Jos.
Mr Eugene Nyelong, NEMA Zonal Coordinator, North Central, commended the state government and the hospitals for providing the necessary support to save the lives of the children.
Nyelong said the items donated were blood-giving sets, IV-giving sets, cannulas, and face masks. Surgical gloves, drugs, crepe bandages, amongst other items.
The four hospitals to benefit from the donation are Bingham University Teaching Hospital, Our Lady of Apostles (OLA) Hospital, Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), and the Plateau State Specialist Hospital.
Shurkuk also commended NEMA for its generous donation to the various facilities in the state.
Prof. Chris Yilgwan, the Chief Medical Director, Plateau State Specialist Hospital, spoke on behalf of the benefiting hospitals.
Yilgwan said that the donation would go a long way to cushion the consumables deficit incurred during the treatment of the school building collapse. NAN
