The Director General of National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General YD Ahmed has been conferred with Fellow of Nigerian Army Resource Centre, Abuja.
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.
Oluyede posited 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.
General Ahmed had once served as a Deputy Director at the Nigerian Army Resource Centre, Abuja.
The Guest Speaker, Dr Kumshida Yakubu Balami, health expert and epidemiologist at a lecture on the conferment of the fellowship of the Army Resource Centre on General Ahmed, while speaking on Public Health and National Security in Nigeria, said everyone have the right to live healthy.
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 thereafter 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 added.