Rivers State governor and Chairman
of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has stepped up his
administration’s health care delivery to the people of the state as he brought
into the state, United States-based health mission of experts to treat people
with glaucoma and cataract eye problems and render other sundry medical
services.
The state Commissioner for Health,
Dr. Sampson Parker, told reporters at the Braithwaite Memorial Hospital, Port
Harcourt, yesterday, that the US-based health mission, Hospitals for Humanity,
was in the state as part of Governor Amaechi’s specialist manpower development
initiative instituted as a programme in the state Ministry of Health to enhance
healthcare delivery in the state.
He said that the Amaechi
administration, through the programme, brought in medical experts from all over
the world to work with Rivers State Government medical personnel to deliver
quality healthcare in the state.
According to him, the foreign
medical experts would provide quality medical care, particularly for glaucoma
and cataract patients who suffer from eye problems.
He also said that the Amaechi
administration recently procured over N1 billion HIV/AIDS drugs for HIV
patients in the state.
In the same vein, the Chief Press
Secretary to Governor Amaechi, Mr. David Iyofor, noted that the current health
mission in the state further demonstrates the governor’s passion for free and
quality healthcare delivery to the people of the state.
Parker said: “Its part of Amaechi’s
administration’s goal to improve manpower and that is why when the governor
came on board, there is this programme we instituted in the Ministry of Health
called the specialist manpower development.
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