From Ibrahim Abdul
A total of 5,530 Community Pharmacists (CPs) and Proprietary Patent Medicine Vendors (PPMVs) will be trained in 11 states on Family Planning and Primary Health care services.
The training which is under the new project tagged ‘IntegratE 2.0’ implemented by Society for Family Health (SFH) and co-funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and MSD for mothers is aimed at increasing the provision of qualitative Family Planning and Primary Health Care services in the 11 selected states as well as to increase access to and use of the facilities at these points of service by 2026.
Explaining the overview of the project during the project’s inception meeting held in Kano, the Regional Program Manager of the project Dr Dayyabu Yusuf explained that, the project is expected to ensure the establishment of a supportive regulatory environment that will enable the facilities to offer expanded Family Planning and Primary Health Care services within the selected states.
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He added that it is also expected that the project will ensure increment in women and communities’ use of an expanded range of quality services across the country.
Similarly, the Project Director Pharmacist Emeka Okafor stated that the project has become necessary taking into consideration the recent findings that showed that about 60% of the people in our communities seek care from these patent stores and community pharmacists and that government attention has been focused on only the remaining 40%.
He added that with the findings outcome there is a need to improve the services the 60% is providing and that the project is being coordinated in close collaboration with Pharmaceutical Council of Nigeria (PCN) as regulators as well as the state’s ministries of health in order to achieve the set objectives of the project.
