The Minister of Health, Dr Onyebuchi Chukwu has commended the Ondo State Government for setting the pace in all health programmes especially in the Adolescent and Youth Friendly Health Services in the state.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Chukwu made this known in Akure at the weekend during a stakeholders meeting on Integrating the Adolescent and Youth Friendly Health Services into the Primary Health Care Facilities in the State.
The Minister who was represented by Head, Gender Adolescent, School Health, Elderly Division of the Family Health Department, Abuja, Dr. Ugboko Christopher said the purpose of their visit to the state is to promote the integration of adolescent/youth health services into primary health care facility in the state, which the state had already started.
He said: “Ondo State is already prepared for the purpose for which we are here. We simply came to give them additional information and to also fortify their resolve to the direction to which they are going.
‘We are happy that the Primary Healthcare Board in the state is standard, knowing full well that they will adopt what the Adolescent Health Care officer is already doing”.
He said the issue of Adolescent and Youth must be structured properly, considering what they are passing through in the country
‘We need to do this, it is important, knowing what the youth and the adolescents are passing through in the country’ he said.
Chukwu said Ondo state has already known what to do adding the Federal Government is only partnering with the state to go through the process.
Commenting on the development the State’s Commissioner for Information,Hon.Kayode Akinmade said the country must appreciate the significance of its youths both now and in the future.
He said there has to be a deliberate effort to ensure that the future of the youth is secured adding that there is the need to integrate them into the system so as to have proper belonging to the society.
Also speaking, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr.Dayo Adeyanju who described the youth as great assets the country has, said they can also constitute a great challenge if they are not properly managed.
According to him, attention has been focused on the tertiary health facilities and emphasised the need to reform our health care system through Primary Health Care.”
He also said the youths must be gainfully employed for them to appreciate their integrity and value same.
Adeyanju called on stakeholders and all Ministries that there must be synergy among them for the programme to be successful.