The Rivers State Government has stated that it has invested enormous sources to turnaround the healthcare supply system.
The state Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, made this declaration in the course of the opening ceremony of the Joint Health Conference on the Obi Wali International Conference Centre in Port Harcourt, yesterday.
Speaking by his Deputy, Dr. Ipalibo Harry Banigo, Wike expressed the willpower of his administration to higher the well being of the Rivers folks and different residents within the state.
He pressured that the non-interest mortgage to docs within the non-public sector, the institution of a College of Medicine within the state college and the institution of the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital underscores the significance his administration attaches to well being.
Wike stated the renovation, equipping and furnishing of the General Hospitals, Zonal Hospitals, the Mother and Child Hospital in addition to the Sir Dr. Peter Odili Cardiovascular, Cancer and Radiotherapy Centre stay a signature initiatives of his administration.
The stategovernment additionally stated that it deliberate to arrange well being insurance administration board quickly to spice up well being care providers within the state.
Wike just lately assented to a invoice establishing the well being insurance scheme within the state.
The State Chief Executive expressed happiness that professionals in healthcare supply within the non-public sector got here collectively to synergise with authorities for the singular goal of repositioning well being care providers within the state.
“It is my hope that as you brainstorm in healthcare financing, the health business forum, the biomedical engineering training session and the discussion on quality control and development of indigenous health remedies, you will set the pace for a robust and smooth health care system that will meet best international practices”, Wike stated.
In her remarks, the Permanent Secretary of the state Ministry of Health, Dr. Ndidi Chikanele Utchay, expressed gratitude to Wike for his imaginative and prescient, competence, management and memorable developmental strides within the well being sector, which in accordance with her, had raised the usual of well being service supply within the state.
Utchay stated the convention was the primary time well being practitioners from varied fields would collect within the state to brainstorm on find out how to enhance the healthcare wants of the folks.
She stated the convention would make sure the constructing of a resilient and dynamic well being system that may impression on the healthcare wants of the folks.
Utchay counseled Governor Nyesom Wike for equipping all tertiary well being amenities within the state, upgrading the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital to a full-fledged analysis establishment and for the institution of the school of medication within the state.
She assured that Dr Peter Odili Cancer and Cardiovascular Centre underneath development could be probably the greatest within the nation.
In his keynote handle, Dr. Ibrahim Wada, stated that with the large funding within the well being sector of the state, Rivers State was on a journey in direction of a affluent exemplary well being standing in Nigeria.
Chairman of the event, and the Onye-Ishi Agwuru of Igbo Kingdom, Dr Samuel Amaechi, known as for the incorporation of each conventional and orthodox drugs with a view to enriching the healthcare wants of Nigerians.
Amaechi additionally known as for the approval of a grant for conventional medical researchers within the nation.
Highlights of the event had been the conferment of the Best Governor on Health Infrastructure and Human Development on Wike and the Very Distinguished Medical Elder and Novel Educationist in Medical Science on former Governor Peter Odili.
The theme for the convention is: “Repositioning Healthcare Services in Rivers State”.
By: John Bibor & Oreoluwa Adigun
