Mozambique: Isaura Nyusi launches “Together We Will Beat Covid-19”

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Mozambique: Isaura Nyusi launches “Together We Will Beat Covid-19”

1:58 CAT | 28 May 2020

Photo: Noticias

The Covid-19 pandemic challenges Mozambique and the world with a crisis of human survival, with more families living below the poverty line, in a situation where a considerable number of children are already at risk of various diseases, including malnutrition.

Such was the warning delivered by First Lady Isaura Nyusi as she launched a movement called “Together We Will Beat Covid-19” in Maputo on Tuesday.

Mozambique’s First Lady was referring in particular to the acute malnutrition caused by the lack of an adequate and nutrient-rich diet for children and by the lack of breastfeeding.

“It is also a great challenge for us to ensure that all children have routine vaccinations, under the extended vaccination programme, in order to prevent the emergence of new epidemics. To be successful in combating these adversities, we need to join forces,” the wife of the head of state said.

Based on government policy’s ‘five pillars’, the “Together We Will Beat Covid-19” movement aims to increase public awareness of the need for strict compliance with measures to prevent and combat the disease.

The five pillars of the initiative are: the reinforcement of massive and inclusive dissemination of preventative measures through all media platforms, with a focus on the most remote areas; the collection of food products to guarantee the basic food basket for disadvantaged communities; the collection of hospital supplies and protective equipment for health professionals on the frontline of Covid-19 response and communities at risk; intensification of structured surveillance to ensure the mitigation of cases of gender-based violence and early marriages and, finally, the protection of the general health and well-being of children, women, the elderly and the disabled.

“In my own name, and that of the Office of the Wife of the President of the Republic, I would like to invite domestic and international entrepreneurs, governmental and non-governmental organizations and people of good faith to join this movement, and donate goods of various kinds for the disadvantaged and those living in a situation of vulnerability, as well as the institutions at the forefront in combating this pandemic,” Isaura Nyusi pleaded.

Source: Noticias