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In a bid to reduce the high rate of child malnutrition, the Federal Ministry of Health with support from the World Bank Group has commenced train the trainer workshop for more than 70 frontline health workers in Enugu State on Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition, MIYCN
The eight day fully residential training which kick-started on Tuesday is to equip participants with relevant skills to provide caregivers essential nutrition education to optimize infant and young child feeding practices and subsequently improve child’s growth and development.
The training is holding simultaneously in selected states across the country.
In a welcome address, the Executive Secretary, Enugu State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, ENSPHDA, Dr. Ifeyinwa Ani-Osheku urged participants to devote utmost attention, as they are expected to cascade the knowledge acquired during the training to caregivers.
Ani-Osheku noted that poor nutrition affects the brain development of a child resulting to intellectual incapacitation which she said instigates a vicious circle of poverty.
“Because when you cannot communicate adequately to someone and the person cannot adequately analyze the information that they have been given, it becomes a problem and that is why this particular training seeks to train the frontline health workers who have been tasked with the responsibility of ensuring that our caregivers have knowledge to be able to guide their families, especially the young ones through the first 1000 days”, she said.
“We would expect that we all give this our very best. A lot of funding has gone into this. And I also want to appreciate our partner, the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Development and all the various funding partners”. “You will agree with me that it is not a mean feat to be able to house this number of individuals in a hotel for this duration. “I expect that we give this the most rapt attention, because after now you will be expected to cascade whatever you have learned. Obviously, it is what you have learned you will cascade to other people”.
Participants where introduced to the general scope of Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition as well as counseling skills.
