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<p>The Federal Government has reaffirmed it’s determination in enhancing safe care guidelines in all parts of the Nation.</p><div class="2AroEFHt" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>The Director Reproductive Health, Federal Ministry of Health Dr. Kayode Afolabi stated this during a two-day Orientation and Data quality assessment on national self-care guidelines in Kano on Tuesday.</p>
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<p>He said that the exercise was organized by the Ministry in collaboration with Pathfinder International towards improving quality sexual and reproductive health services in general.</p><div class="SXeX6qif" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>The Director added said that self-care was simply making every individual responsive to his or her health need.</p>
<p>&#8220;We want to ensure that individuals have awareness as to know their health status and what should be done at the right time.</p>
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<p>&#8220;We want individual to have some basic tretaken that can be done before linking to primary health care.</p>
<p>&#8220;Kano is among the state in the country to strategically to implement and orient them on self-care,&#8221; he explained.</p>
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<p>Afolabi advise the general public to position themselves to benefit from self-care which was a shift in universal health coverage and a huge opportunity.</p>
<p>According to him, alot of things has to bee done especially when it comes to disease like malaria, environment should be clean to reduce it.</p>
<p>He maintained that the Ministry was also working tirelessly in creating awareness and channels of accessing self care ,aimed at uplifting the health Status of the General populace.</p>
<p>Dr. Amina Aminu , the country director of Pathfinder international , who spoke at the event said that the exercise was a very important step towards improving accessing and quality of sexual and reproductive health services in general.</p>
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<p>&#8220;I am honoured to be working very close with federal ministry of health and Kano state ministry of health to adopt and push for the implementation of self care guidelines in Nigeria.</p>
<p>&#8220;We just came out of a very crucial COVID:19 pandemic era young people in rural areas do not to have access to proper health care&#8221;, she said</p>
<p>Aminu further explained that it was important for every individual to have access to care for their own health.</p>
<p>She lamented that, Nigeria does not have number of service provider especially nurses and doctors(those that are highly skilled needed to cater for population of people)</p>
<p>&#8220;Maternal and infant mortality is very high in the country,once more women and young people know their health status they can help manage the situation,&#8221; she added.</p>
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<p>Dr. Rajab Ashiru, Director Public Health and Disease Control of the Kano state ministry of health, said people would accept self-care without spending money every two to three months for family planning.</p>
<p>Ashiru said that the new initiative, strategy would improve uptake of family planing and and reduce need for service providers facilities.</p>
<p>Stakeholders members include supervisors of maternal and child health care(MCH) in all the 44 local government area in the state.</p>
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