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By Ugochukwu Alaribe
Abia authorities authorities has commenced moves to prohibition accepted commencement attendants from operating successful the authorities pursuing the revitalization of much Primary Health Centers,PHCs, successful the 17 assembly areas.
Governor Alex Otti, who stated this portion commissioning the Okpuhu Nkpa and Umuenyere Alayi PHCs, successful Bende assembly area, noted that 1 of the large causes of maternal mortality is the transportation by unskilled workers, which includes accepted commencement attendants.
He disclosed that the revitalization of the 2 PHCs marks the extremity of implicit 24 years of full negligence connected the wellness and payment of the people, noting that helium came to powerfulness to alteration the narratives.
The Governor explained that the revitalization of the 2 wellness centers brings the full to 42, portion the remaining 8 PHCs volition beryllium done successful the adjacent week to implicit the 50 PHCs billed to be
functionalised this September.
Otti, who was represented by the Commissioner for Health, Prof. Enoch Ogbonnaya Uche, stated that his authorities is not lone gathering oregon renovating superior healthcare centres, but besides equipping them with world-class healthcare infrastructure.
The Governor besides stated that Nigeria contributes to 29% of maternal mortality successful the world, and urged the radical to patronize the PHCs, stressing that the authorities authorities plans to apprehension anyone patronizing accepted commencement attendants, arsenic good arsenic the attendants themselves.
He said, “One of the large causes of maternal mortality is transportation by unskilled workers. And that includes accepted commencement attendants who person not been trained and certified to supply that level of healthcare service.
“And so, the authorities has reached a determination that with the functionalization of the PHCs and with the immense concern successful the healthcare sector, our women present person places that person been equipped and staffed with the prime of unit that person been trained and certified to grip deliveries.
“They (traditional commencement attendants) truthful bash not person the requisite skills for information successful the handling of maternal and kid wellness attraction services.
“In these PHCs, you volition spot aggregate multi-parameter monitors that supply state-of-the-art monitoring of the wellness indices.
“We person the automatic outer defibrillator, which is simply a instrumentality that you tin usage to daze the bosom erstwhile determination is cardiac arrest. You person auto-analysers.
“You person incubators successful the laboratory. You person oxygen cylinders and oxygen transportation devices. And you person state-of-the-art transportation country equipped with first-rate transportation beds and life-support equipment, some the parent and the child.”
He disclosed that support has been granted for the constitution of an isolation centre astatine the fashionable Uzuakoli Leprosy Centre to attraction for isolation cases.
In their abstracted remarks, indigenes of Alayi and Special Adviser to the Governor connected Media and Publicity, Mr Ferdinand Ekeoma and the president of Bende assembly area, Deacon Uwabunkeonye Bassey, urged the radical of the 2 areas to ain the projects and support them from vandals.
Also speaking,the Health Authority Secretary of Bende assembly area, Mrs Glory Ihedigbo and the accepted ruler, Umuenyere Alayi,Eze Ignatious Uche ,thanked the Governor for not lone renovating their wellness facilities successful Nkpa and Alayi and assured him of their support.
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