Kaduna wins award for maternal health

Kaduna State has been selected as the best performing state in the first phase of the 2015 Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Week (MNCH).
A letter by the Country Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Dr. Bilali Camara addressed to Governor Nasir El-Rufai, said Kaduna State won the prize because its hospitals counselled and tested 84,000 pregnant women for HIV during the period, and referred those that tested positive to a treatment facility.
UNAIDS  stressed that the state advanced the objective to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and pledged $14,000 to support Kaduna State in the next phase of the MNCH Week.
 The state’s healthcare system also got a boost as MTN Foundation selected five state hospitals to benefit from its maternity ward support project (MWSP).
The hospitals, according to a statement by the media assistant to the governor, Samuel Aruwan, are, Yusuf  Dantsoho Hospital, Kaduna, General Hospital, Kafanchan, Jubrin Maigari Hospital, Birnin-Gwari, Hajiya Gambo Sawaba Hospital, Zaria and the Dabo Lere Memorial Hospital, Saminaka.