Malnutrition: UNICEF Trains 120 Health Workers
By Chioma Umeha
Jigawa –
The United Nations Children’s Fund on Tuesday said 120 officers in
Jigawa State were undergoing training on modern communication skills and data
collection on malnutrition.
The Nutrition Specialist, UNICEF field office,
Bauchi, Philomena Irene, said this at the kick-off of the five-day training in
Dutse.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria the
training, which began on Sept. 5, would end on Sept. 10.
Irene said the exercise was designed to expose the
participants to modern communication skills and data collection methods on
malnutrition and infant and young child feeding practice.
She said the beneficiaries would be exposed to the
use of software that would help them collect data on Severe Acute Malnutrition
Issues in the state.
“This is the software that helps health workers
working on nutritional issue to collect data on severe acute malnutrition and
infant and young child feeding practice as soon as they finish providing
services.
“This software, will through an SMS, enable them
to enter data on how many children they’ve reached, how many are on admission,
how many are discharged and how many are referred to stabilisation centres.”
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