By Miriam Humbe
Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier General Yushau Dogara Ahmed has been conferred with Fellow of Nigerian Army Resource Centre, Abuja.
Caroline Embu, NYSC’s Acting Director, Information and Public Relations disclosed this in a statement signed on Friday.
The Director General of the Centre, Major General Garba Ayodeji Wahab (rtd) presented the certificate of investiture to General Ahmed at a ceremony held at the Nigerian Army Resource Centre.
The Special Guest of Honour at a lecture that preceded the investiture, Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Olufemi Oluyede, who was represented by Major General Ayoola Aboaba said the Nigerian Army is ready to set measures and mechanisms that would combat health security in Nigeria.
He said the enthronement of National Health Infrastructure depended on the availability of effective population data.
Oluyede said that a robust and reserved health infrastructure that would strengthen the healthcare personnel is very essential, and also the inclusion of a health database that would be of use during health emergencies.
“We have to make sure that the right health infrastructure is in place. It is only when you have the database of the population that you can adequately plan for health infrastructure”, he said.
Speaking after his investiture as a Fellow of the Nigerian Army Resource Centre, Brigadier General Yushau Dogara Ahmed expressed appreciation to the management of the centre for finding him worthy of the fellowship.
General Ahmed had once served as a Deputy Director at the Nigerian Army Resource Centre, Abuja.
Dr Kumshida Yakubu Balami, a Public health expert and epidemiologist was the Guest Speaker at a lecture that preceded the conferment of the fellowship of the Army Resource Centre on General Ahmed.
Balami while speaking on Public Health and National Security in Nigeria, said everyone had the right to live healthy.
She also said that health crises undermined a nation’s economic and developmental stability, and advised that health surveillance was everyone’s business.
Dr Balami said efforts must be put in place to identify the key health threats affecting national security, such as humanitarian crises and terrorism in some parts of the country.
She appealed to the security agencies in the country to intensify their efforts on surveillance, early detection and response.
“We need a resilient national and local public health services, tightly integrated with primary healthcare and empowered communities”, she said.
