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From Obinna Odogwu, Awka
No fewer than 130 Primary Healthcare Centres have been rehabilitated by the Anambra State Government and 1,500 healthcare workers recruited in less than four years of Governor Chukwuma Soludo in office.
This was disclosed by the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Afam Obidike, at the premises of the newly constructed Solution Trauma Centre, Awka while briefing journalists shortly after a tour of some of the medical facilities in the state.
He said that the hospitals were rehabilitated as part of Governor Soludo-led administration’s efforts targeted at standardising the hospitals and improving healthcare service delivery across the state.
Some of the newly built and rehabilitated hospitals, according to Obidike are: Okpoko General Hospital in Ogbaru Local Government Area, Solution Specialist Hospital Fegge, Onitsha South LGA; Solution Rehabilitation Centre Nibo, Awka South LGA; and Ekwulobia General Hospital in Aguata LGA.
Others are: Umueri General Hospital in Anambra East LGA; Enugwu-Ukwu General Hospital, Njikoka LGA; Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital (COOUTH), Amaku-Awka and Solution General Hospital, Anaku in Ayamelum LGA among others.
Obidike said the state government had taken significant steps to improve the state’s healthcare sector to ensure an increased access to quality healthcare facilities by residents across the state, regardless of their financial status; and that the government would not relent in working for the people.
The health commissioner, who further noted that innovative measures were being taking by the Soludo-led administration to transform the healthcare sector, expressed delight over private health investors’ interest in supporting the state government in ensuring a robust and resilient health system in the state.
Obidike made it clear that Soludo was working for the people and their future and not necessarily because of his reelection bid.
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“His vision is to make Anambra the safest, healthiest, green, clean, digitalised, smart, liveable and prosperous state in Nigeria”, he said.
“In less than four years of his administration, Governor Soludo has proven himself as a visionary leader who thinks of the next generation and not the next election. His transformational policy is to ensure Anambra emerges as Nigeria’s destination hub by 2070.
“The medical facilities tour with you, the media, is to let the world know what Governor Soludo has dutifully achieved in less than four years of his administration and also to let Ndi Anambra know what their tax money has done.
“One of the major aims of this administration is to ensure that Anambra residents, irrespective of tribe, ethnicity and religious affiliations have access to quality healthcare services.
“About 130 primary healthcare centres (PHCs), have been fully rehabilitated with solar lights, constant water supply and functional 30kV generator sets.
“The Solution Trauma Centre, Awka and the Solution Specialist Hospital, Fegge Onitsha are in their finishing stages for official commissioning. We have migrated to a digitalised healthcare system with the establishment of Telemedicine.
“We also have functional 40 ambulance stations across major hospitals in the state. A total of 1,500 health workers have so far been recruited within the period under review.
“All this and other uncountable achievements are micro to what the people of Anambra State will witness in the second term of Governor Soludo,” Obidike assured.
Obidike, who used the opportunity to solicit support for the governor’s second term bid, said that the state government was targeting to make the state’s health sector look like that of India in the next five years.
