Ogun inaugurates steering committee on national community food bank programme

In a bid to combat malnutrition and its associated effects, the Ogun State Government has officially unveiled the Steering Committee for the National Community Food Bank Programme (NCFBP), a nationwide inaugural aimed astatine bolstering nutrient information for the astir susceptible citizens.

The NCFBP, a multi-sectoral inaugural of the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, is focused connected bridging the hunger spread by facilitating accordant entree to nutritious and locally produced nutrient crossed states.

Speaking astatine the inauguration, the Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, emphasised that the programme was a deliberate effect to the nutritional situation affecting susceptible households.

“Our precedence is to unafraid the aboriginal of our children aged 0–6 and enactment susceptible large and breastfeeding mothers. This is astir ensuring steadfast maturation and encephalon improvement astatine the grassroots level,” she said.

Coker, who is the president of the committee, urged members to efficaciously play their roles for the palmy execution of the programme, noting that the extremity was to guarantee that their efforts were seen done the implementation process.

In his invited address, the Executive Secretary of the State Primary Healthcare Development Board, Dr. Elijah Ogunsola, commended the inaugural for its imaginable to fortify the nutrient and nutrition enactment system, adding that the sta...