The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration with its partners and the Katsina State government on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the construction of a N900 million naira ultra-modern medical store in Katsina.
According to the MoU, Katsina State government will contribute 15 per cent of the total contract sum while UNICEF through its partners will provide 85 per cent for the project, expected to be commissioned in December.
“We are in a digital era and we have seen where a lot of drugs lose their potency when they are not properly kept,” according to the UNICEF Health Specialist from the Kano field office, Dr. Saudat Bashir.
She said, “the medical warehouse is also going to be beneficial to the people of the State, especially women and children.
“We are hoping that when completed, the ultra-modern warehouse will ensure quality assurance of the medicines.
“The idea for the upgrade of the existing warehouse is to make it a modern system, especially in the area of drugs supply and distribution.”
She added that with the facility, there will be additional advantage of accountability in the system of supply and distribution of drugs and other medical consumables.
Moreover, according to her, there will also be a quality data process in documentation, “which means there won’t be paper-based documentation again”, she noted.