Kwara Gov approves N41 million malaria counterpart fund for 2020

November 25, 2020November 25, 2020

Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has approved the sum of forty-one million naira (N41,000,000) for malaria program in the year 2020.

The Honourable Commissioner for Health, Dr Raji Razaq disclosed this yesterday in a meeting with Long Lasting Campaign Coordinating Network Committee (LLCCN) at the ministry Premises.

He said the State Government has been very proactive in improving the standard of health care service delivery in the state.

Dr Raji commended the partners and stakeholders for a wonderful and successful flag off program which motivated the Executive Governor to release N41 million for this year’s counterpart fund for malaria program.

Mr John Ocholi appreciated the State Government for the high level of commitments for the program which is matching to a successful end.

He also commended the management of the health sector for their proactiveness in quality health care delivery to the downtrodden masses in the State.

Mr Ocholi said the distribution started five days ago and so far, there is a success report on the exercise.

The Campaign Manager, Mr Dangana Christopher said he has partaken in many Net campaign but the Kwara net campaign is one of the best so far this year, he enumerated some of the commitments since the commencement of the program.

He said the announcement of the counterpart fund by the state government is super and the State Governor deserves more than kudos for the high level of political will.

Though there are slight issues to be rectified, the management is attending to that.

The meeting was attended by all LLCCN committee members.