MINISTRY OF HEALTH

Hon. Commissioner Dr. Yeri Everton Peter

The Ministry was created to essentially provide responsive and basic healthcare service to all citizens in the state.

Health Care Delivery

Apart from a large two-unit University Teaching Hospital in Kaduna and Zaria, there are large and fully equipped government hospitals located in Zonkwa, Jama'a and Kafanchan as well as in Kaduna and Zaria. Smaller government and privately owned ones are also found in towns like Birnin Gwari, Kagoro, Saminaka and Soba. The State Government, together with the Federal Government and the World Health Organisation (WHO), have also established Comprehensive Primary Health Care Units in some selected rural areas; (e.g. Yaka Wada in Giwa LGA) which cater for child care, pre and ante-natal health care.

INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO GOOD HEALTH BY ARCH NAMADI SAMBO

Poor health and malnutrition impair physical and mental capacities, and therefore the ability for productive work. This has been amply demonstrated time and time again. Despite bi-directional causality, these findings suggest that fighting hunger may be a growth-promoting economic investment, not only a human rights obligation. The importance of the agricultural sector and of rural poverty has led many countries to pursue strategies focused on reducing chronic food insecurity through increasing the productivity of small farmers. Such strategies require that financial resources and institutional capacity be available, and that rural poor can access productive land and affordable inputs, and that the non-farming poor can express their unsatisfied food needs in terms of effective demand. In most case, however, this approach is constrained in scale by lack of resources, domestic and external, and institutional capacity.

Since adequate nutrition, health and elementary education are prerequisites for inclusive economic growth, ensuring the broadest possible access to essential food needs, safe water, primary health care and primary education may well be an indispensable use of scarce resources to reach the WFS target. Therefore, Namadi Sambo's direct interventions aimed at boosting current food production and at creating conditions for healthy living are right as they accompany policies (including public investment priorities) aiming at overall and agricultural development.

Governor Arch Mohammed Namadi Sambo is a true democrat, whose approach to problems is always humane and conciliatory he is a man of peace who patiently looked to the future with courage and hope. His commitment in the direction of transforming the state into a relatively better integrated and functional polity is continuing  with a mission  to create a stable  and cohesive polity capable of securing effectively the interests of the various communities and giving them the opportunity to develop and live in peace  with one another.

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