Kano State Covid-19 taskforce technical Committee has established a Home base care Assessors popularly (HBC Riders) aimed at reaching people in remote places with a view to tackling the spread of the pandemic among the teeming populace in the state.
Inaugurating the program, State Commissioner of Health , Dr. Aminu Ibrahim Tsanyawa explained that, the establishment of the program came as the result of the coming of the second wave of the pandemic, stressing that, Health personnel were trained and provided with motorcycles and medication so as to reach every nook and cranny with a view to rendering home care health emergency services.
He called on the personnel to be more committed in the discharge of their assignment.
Earlier, the State Coordinator On Covid-19 Task force committee who is also the Executive Secretary, State Primary Health Care Management Board Dr. Tijjani Hussain emphasised that, the program is aimed at conducting a community target, sampling as well as rendering emergency services to people in hard to reach communities.
He commended the state government for it’s support to the task force committee in it’s effort towards eradicating the pandemic in the state.
He called on the people in the state to give all the necessary support and cooperation to the health personnel so as to achieve the desire set objective.