By Murtala Muhammad
Bauchi State Primary Health Care Board, has urged pioneer graduands of eHealth Academic Training on Geographic Information System (GIS) to rededicate themselves to community service towards enhancing data collection and analysis.
The Manager Polio Emergency Operation Center (EOC) Hadiza Ahmed Jibril who made the call during a brief ceremony to mark the successful completion of the female GIS academic training.
Hajiya Hadiza Jibril disclosed that the trainees were acquainted with the knowledge of GIS, data visualisation and Open Data Kit (ODK) — used for creating, collecting and managing survey data.
She emphasised that the graduands’ availability, resilience, commitment and dedication to a data-driven community service would offer them numerous future career opportunities in the state and beyond.
The manager EOC commended them for exhibiting high sense of responsibility and openness to learning throughout the three-months rigorous training period organised by the State Primary Health Care Board with support from eHealth Africa.
According to her, the eHealth GIS training programme was a rare opportunity that many were in dear need to have been part of, calling on the pioneers to put into practice what they have learnt.
Some of the pioneer graduands zahra’u Garba and Nafeesa Abdul-Yakeen express gratitude for the unique opportunity, describing the training as impactful particularly in developing maps, using ODK to collect and analyse data.
