The Founder-President, Mrs. Toyin Ojora Sakari, who disclosed this at a three-day summit, under the Scaling Up of Zinc and LO-ORS for the Treatment of Childhood Diarrhoea in Northern Nigeria Project, funded by the Government of Canada, said the organisation identified the Drug Revolving Fund scheme as a key factor towards promoting the overall wellbeing of end-users of drugs and medical services.
The summit was held in partnership with Nutrition International, national and international stakeholders, and hosted by the Federal Ministry of Health’s National Product Supply Chain Management Programme on New Approaches to DRF/DMA Set-Up in Nigeria. “Supporting Sokoto and Kano states to increase and sustain availability and access to zinc and LO-ORS commodities by strengthening their DRF schemes is catalysing modern medicine with better supply chain and financial procurement management in tangential action with health systems strengthening, deploying a dedicated midwifery and nursing workforce to reach community healthcare facilities and households – creating statewide behavioral change, is delivering measurable improvements where they are...