Healthcare advocates in Jigawa kick against bribing of parents to accept immunisation

Antenatal and postnatal healthcare advocates, stakeholders in Jigawa State have expressed dismay on the government’s policy on inducing parents with materials to accept routine immunisation in the state.

This was disclosed by the district head of Kiyawa and a member of the routine immunization committee of Kiyawa local government area, Alhaji Adamu Aliyu Kiyawa, during a speech in a town hall meeting in his palace at Kiyawa.

The town hall meeting was held as part of the 2021 International Pneumonia Day celebration, which was organized by Save the Children International (SCI).

The District head condemned the acts in totality saying, “it is improper and encouraging bribery and corruption even in the healthcare services to the community.”

Alhaji Adamu Aliyu explained that “it is the responsibility of every government to provide basic healthcare services to its people. And also its responsibility to ensure the public accepts any useful policies and programme by the government that will impact the social and economic lives of the citizens on health, education, security etc.”

According to him “this action by the government will make the members of the public and parents, in particular, to see and consider the health of their children as important”.

Kiyawa called on the government to stop the acts without further delay, stressing that “when the immunization exercise was monitored by traditional leaders, people were accepting it without any resistance, knowing fully well that it is for their best. But attaching a gift to the exercise would make them think otherwise”.

The district head suggested to the government stop any gift or inducement attached to any health, education and security policy, programme, and projects.

Speaking earlier the manager of Primary Healthcare of Kiyawa local government, Malam Musa Muhammadu said pneumonia prevalence has drastically reduced in the local government, following the intervention of Save the Children International (SCI) with the introduction of the INSPIRING project sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), which supported the council’s PHC department and health facilities in the area with medical equipment worth more than N50 million.

The PHC manager noted that “before the GSK, SCI intervention, the children mortality as a result of pneumonia was at 12.3 percent. But with the intervention has reduced to 3.9 percent”.

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