Restoration of the Dignity of Womanhood (ROWDOW) in collaboration with the Ondo State Primary Health Care Development Agency has trained health workers in the state on administration of Vitamin A, Albendazole and Micronutrients to nursing mothers and children.
Apart from this, no fewer than 300 nursing mothers received gifts such as baby diapers, detergents, and food items for taking Vitamin supplements regularly.
Speaking, the Chief Executive Officer of ROTDOW, Mrs. Omolona Olabisi, said the organisation entered a synergy with Vitamin Angels to transform the lives of mothers and children with a consistent supply of essential nutrients has yielded good results.
According to Olabisi, who stated that regular supply of life-saving commodities has helped to strengthen the state’s routine immunization program as well as provide support during Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Week in the state.
She said the Vitamin interventions have helped to reduce maternal mortality rates, increase antenatal clinic attendance, decline reliance on traditional birth attendants as well as improve local economy from the donated commodities worth millions of naira.
Olabisi said “We started partnering with Vitamins Angels since 2018 and since then they have been supplying us with drugs we gave to children in Ondo State. We have also been training health workers on how to administer the drugs.”
Ondo State Deputy Director, Nutrition, Dr. Kike Adejuwon, explained that the training and retraining of health workers were necessary to make them abreast of discovery.
She said “It is good to train and retrain because there is always a new thing. There are new things that they don’t know.
“The vitamins helps keep eyesight good and build immunity in children. When a child is deworm the body will be able to develop and the child will grow well.”
The state Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Deaconess Lola Fagbemi, commended the organisation for ensuring maternal and child health.
Fagbemi who was represented by Mr. Ibukun Akindele, said the government remained committed to improved health care for women and children in the state.
Representatives of Vitamin Angels, Oluwatoyin Adebayor, said they supply Vitamin A supplements and deworming tablets commodities, and Multiple Micronutrient supplements aimed to improve maternal health outcomes and nutrition outcomes for children.