Delta Health Workers Extort Money From Pregnant Women, Children

The Delta State authorities has dismissed respective workers and demoted immoderate for extorting wealth from large women and children nether 5 years, contempt the state’s escaped healthcare argumentation for these groups.
Commissioner for health, Dr. Joseph Onojaeme, disclosed this yesterday astatine Ashaka, Ndokwa East section authorities area, during the flag-off of the Maternal and Neonatal Mortality Reduction Innovation and Initiatives (MAMII) Project Action Plan.

Onojaeme revealed that immoderate wellness workers had been sanctioned for collecting wealth from large women and children nether 5 years for drugs, portion inactive forwarding the bills to the authorities for payment.

Onojaeme said large women successful Delta State are entitled to escaped healthcare until delivery, portion children nether 5 besides person escaped aesculapian treatment.

He assured that monitoring would proceed to guarantee that funds released for maternal and kid healthcare were decently utilised.

He encouraged residents to study immoderate wellness idiosyncratic demanding payment, adding that the telephone fig of the Executive Assistant to the Governor connected Health Monitoring would beryllium made nationalist for specified reports.

“Health workers successful the authorities person done well, but successful each 12, determination is simply a Judas,” helium said.
He expressed optimism that the programme would further trim maternal and kid deaths successful the state.

According to him, Delta State has recorded a important simplification successful maternal mortality, with figures dropping from implicit 200 to little than 120 per 100,000 unrecorded births.

In his remarks, the typical of the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Dr. John Ovuoraye, pledged national authorities enactment to states successful tackling maternal and neonatal mortality.

He noted that 172 section authorities areas crossed 33 states had been identified arsenic high-risk zones, including 5 successful Delta—Ndokwa East, Ughelli North, Aniocha North, Udu and Sapele.

Ovuoraye added that the MAMII Project, backed by President Bola Tinubu, is being implemented successful collaboration with USAID, WHO, UNICEF, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, and respective European partners.

The lawsuit featured the presumption of the MAMII plaque to Delta authorities and the inauguration of a task unit to thrust the project’s enactment plan.