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By Abbas Bamalli
The Federal Government has trained 30 logistics managers on nutrition commodity management in Katsina State.
The two-day training exercise is being organised in collaboration between the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) and an international organisation, Nutrition International (NI).
Mrs Ladidi Bako, the Director of Nutrition, Federal Ministry of Health, said this at the inauguration of the exercise on Saturday in Katsina.
Represented by Ayo Hosea, Assistant Chief Scientist Officer in the ministry, Bako said the exercise aimed to onboard the nutrition commodity in the Nigeria Health Logistic Management Information System (NHLMIS), introduced by the federal government.
She said that it would also raise a pool of nutrition logistics managers across the country to the use of the NHLMIS, for accountability of nutrition commodities.
“The two-day training is also to integrate the nutrition commodity logistic system into the existing platform NHLMIS.
“So, we are here to train the state on how to manage nutrition commodities to reduce wastage of government resources and that of partners.
“And the main objective of this meeting is to raise a pool of nutrition logistics managers that will cascade training to all states of the federation.
“For Katsina, the participants will cascade the training to all the nutrition officers in the state, so that they will be able to enter the nutrition commodity into NHLMIS, so that it will be visible to the people at the federal level to know how the state nutrition officers are managing the commodity supplied to them by partners and the government,” she said.
This, she said would support the state on how to input data on the NHLMIS, to relate to the government and the partners how they utilised the commodity.
Mr Sani Isah-Umar, the NI Coordinator in the state, said the organisation was supplying nutrition commodities such as Vitamin A, iron and folic acid to states in Nigeria.
According to him, at the national and state levels, there is a gap in management of the commodities due to lack of nutrition indicators in the LMHIS.
He said the exercise would build capacity of managers to bridge gaps and enable them to make key nutrition decisions as well as monitore usage and management of nutrition commodities through the national tool.
Isa-Umar said the measure would check duplication, promote transparency, accountability and strengthen the state information in decision making on nutrition programmes.
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