NGO Presents Heroic Award of Excellence to Ten Health Workers in Kano
AREWA AGENDA – A Non-Governmental Organisations, Youth Society for the Prevention of Infectious Disease and Social Vices (YOSPIS), and Heroic Discovery And Community Development Center (HEDCODEC) on Saturday honoured ten different health workers with an award of excellence titled Dr. Aminu Magashi Annual Heroic Health Award.
Malam Sulaiman Jalo Director Operations of Aminu Magashi Garba (AMG) Foundation said during the presentation of the award to the ten frontline health workers in Kano State (five males, five females) after the presentation of the award plaques, certificates, a cash prize of twenty-five thousand naira (N25,000) were allocated to each of the awardees.
Zainab Nasir Ahmad, Executive Director of YOSPIS Nigeria narrated how the awardees were selected based on the creation of a link to Google form with the advert on various social media platforms seeking entries from Kano and Abuja for ten days, and 27 entries were recorded accordingly, ten were selected based on competence.
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Jibrin Muhammad Nas who received the award of Most Punctual Staff of the Year from Kwararrafa Primary Healthcare Center, Kwara Goje expressed his happiness and said the award came to him as a surprise because he never knew he will be chosen for this category despite his punctuality habit in his working place.
Hafsat Ibrahim Saminu, a volunteer with Dan Tsinke Primary Healthcare Facility who received the award of Most Hygienic Staff express her heartfelt gratitude to the AMG Foundation for finding her worthy of recognition. She later advised her colleagues to work hard with good intentions.
The award was in commemoration of the 2023 United Nations Public Service Day and was instituted last year to recognize outstanding frontline health workers working in Primary Healthcare Centres in Nigeria.
Some of the personalities in attendance were the Director of Admin and General Services of Kano State Primary Healthcare Management Board, Mal. Suleiman Tanimu who was represented by Dr. Sharif Yahaya Musa, Director Medical Services of the board, Dr. Musa Muhammad Bello, HOD Community Medicine, BUK, and Dr. Alhassan Umar Adamu, President of Nigeria Cancer Society among others.
