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Abuja, 10 March, 2024 – In a vibrant celebration of ladies’s achievements and progress in direction of gender empowerment, equality and a more healthy inhabitants, the World Well being Group (WHO) in Nigeria marked 2024 Worldwide Ladies’s Day with a collection of commemorative occasions alongside ladies throughout the nation.
“The theme of the 2024 Worldwide Ladies’s Day “Spend money on ladies: Speed up progress” resonated deeply with the WHO Nigeria’s dedication to advocating for ladies’s well being, rights, and empowerment”, mentioned the WHO Nation Consultant Dr Walter Kazadi Mulombo.
Dr Mulombo emphasised the importance of commemorating Worldwide Ladies’s Day within the context of ongoing WHO’s efforts to advertise gender equality, ladies and ladies’ empowerment and securing their rights to more healthy lives.
“Ladies play an important position in healthcare and public well being, in addition to constructing resilient and equitable societies. We’re proud to face in solidarity with ladies throughout Nigeria and the world in recognizing the invaluable contributions of ladies to well being and well-being. This Worldwide Ladies’s Day is a chance to mirror on the progress made and recommit ourselves to addressing the prevailing gender disparities in healthcare.
On this IWD, I’m glad to have a good time our vivid, energetic, modern and galvanizing ladies colleagues within the Nation Workplace and within the discipline, we’ve got witnessed worth in investing in you to speed up progress”, he remarked.
The WHO workplace in Nigeria organized a various vary of actions to honour ladies’s contributions to world improvement and handle the challenges they face in varied spheres of life. From interactive panel discussions to neighborhood outreach initiatives, the occasions aimed to boost consciousness, foster dialogue, and encourage motion in direction of investing in ladies to speed up progress within the communities.
One of many highlights of the day was a webinar dialogue that includes ladies in WHO, and the way they stability their day by day lives. Contributors engaged in thought-provoking conversations, sharing private experiences and advocating for concrete steps to deal with systemic inequalities.
Along with the panel dialogue, WHO Nigeria in collaboration with some state governments and companions organized well being outreach packages in underserved communities, specializing in offering important healthcare companies to ladies and ladies. These initiatives included free medical screenings, distribution of reproductive well being assets, and academic workshops on maternal and little one well being.
Reflecting on the day’s occasions, members expressed their appreciation for the chance to return collectively, have a good time progress, and renew their dedication to advancing ladies’s rights.
The President of the WHO Employees Affiliation, in her comment, mentioned “This 12 months’s IWD is a reminder of the distinctive contributions and values ladies deliver to the society. At each nook of the world is a lady who is continually working onerous to make an affect on the planet. The successes and wonderful achievements of African ladies are as a result of ladies have chosen to not be restricted by their struggles and bruises. This 12 months’s IWD theme is a name to spend money on ladies. An funding in ladies is an funding in all of society. I particularly applaud the contributions of ladies in WHO Nigeria for his or her doggedness and resilience within the face of continually altering wants”.
Through the commemorative well being consciousness speak and free medical screening occasions organized by the Ondo State Ministry of Ladies Affairs in collaboration with WHO to mark the day, the WHO State Co-ordinator Dr. Dele David Sunday famous that the theme ‘Spend money on Ladies, Speed up progress. He pressured the necessity to empower ladies, thereby bettering entry and utilization of well being care companies.
