Kogi Agency Donates N20m Data Collation Materials To Boost Health Indices
The Kogi State Primary Health Care Development Agency (KSPHCDA) has donated data materials and tools worth over N20 million to the Ministry of Health to enhance effective data collation.
Handing over the materials and tools to the Health Commissioner in Lokoja, Dr. Abubakar Yakubu, the Executive Director of KSPHCDA, said that the procurement of the data materials was facilitated by the agency’s Impact Project initiative.
Yakubu said the tools would assist the Department of Health, Planning and Statistics of the ministry in data collation and processing to enhance data analysis.
The executive director explained that the state has had challenges of its data not being reflected in the national statistics, due to the unavailability of materials and tools to transmit those data.
Yakubu said that the outdated data collation materials had led to the state recording a drop in its reporting from the relevant agencies responsible for data processing and evaluation in the country.
“We made frantic efforts to correct the trend, and today we have more than enough data tools to work with across all our health facilities in the state.
“The action is very strategic from the KSPHCDA under the impact project and it is a result of the collaborative roles that we have established over time.
“There is no system without data because you cannot make any meaningful planning without data.
“We need to report all our interventions and the data has to be captured correctly and appropriately and the cost of the latest version of the procured data tools is way over N20 million.
“We hope that it would better our reporting profile for all our health indices in the state,” he added.
Yakubu appreciated the leadership of Impact Project, KSPHCDA, Ministry of Health, as well as international partners such as World Bank, among others for the collaboration.
He urged primary users of the tools to effectively utilised them by generating accurate data, report back to the state appropriately thereby enhancing the state’s health data capacity.
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Zakari Usman, commended KSPHCDA for including the provision of the latest version of the data tools in their work plan to the ministry.
Usman, who was represented by the Director of Public Health in the ministry, Dr Francis Akpa, described the action as evidence of synergy that existed between the ministry and all its parastatals.
He said that the tools would further enhance the ministry of health’s ability to report on the current data in the state.
The commissioner assured that the ministry would continue to leverage on other existing projects between the ministry and the agency.
The Programme Manager for Impact Project, Mr Theophilus Olorunmaiye, said that the data tools were the latest version in the market.
The items include; 825 copies of each of NHIS HF monthly Summary Form, Vaccine and Devices Requisition Ledger, OPD Register and TD Register, Monthly Immunization Summary Form, and HF Daily General Attendance Register.
Other items include 825 copies of HF Vaccine Utilisation Summary Form, VM IA/IB, Child Immunisation Register, HD Daily Immunization Tally Sheet, Health Facility Daily ANC Register; and 21 copies of LGA Summary Form.
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