The Kano State Government has established an ad hoc committee to sensitise students of tertiary institutions on the effects and dangers associated with drug abuse and other mental health issues.
This was disclosed by the Special Adviser on Health Matters, Dr. Fauziyya Buba, during the closing ceremony of a one-day sensitisation meeting with guidance and counseling mentors from the State’s tertiary institutions, on Friday.
Buba, who doubles as the chairperson of the State Mental Health Action Committee and Female Anti-Drug Campaign Committee, said the meeting is convened to review recommendations made during the previous meeting.
She said; “Based on the meeting, most of the guidance and counseling mentors in various tertiary institutions in Kano have set up anti-drug and G& C clubs which are working and functioning, we have achieved a lot.”
The Special Adviser said during the meeting, an ad hoc committee was set up to go around tertiary institutions, to sensitise lecturers, staff and students on their mental health, effects of drug abuse as well as social and spiritual well-being.
Buba stressed that the committee will commence activities at the end of November and charged the management of tertiary institutions, lecturers, other staff and students to give the committee the maximum cooperation to enable it to succeed in the fight against drug and substance abuse.