Health Sector: RSG Harps On Service Delivery

The Rivers State

Commissioner for Health, Dr. Sampson Parker, has stated that the ministry places premium on service delivery in the health sector of the economy.

Dr. Parker who disclosed this at a meeting with the management and staff of the ministry urged all hands to be on deck to deliver on the promises made to Rivers people by the state government in the health sector.

He warned that all acts of indiscipline, especially lateness to duty would be punished, adding that the staff were being monitored by the state government on assumption of duty at 8.00am and also close at 4.00pm, on work days.

The commissioner stressed the importance of effective information dissemination and urged the staff to keep abreast with the ministry’s programmes and activities and help to pass on same to the public to enable them benefit from such information.

He used the opportunity to announce that the State’s Universal Free Medical Care Programme was fully in force, stating that the state government would pick up the medical bills of all tax paying residents of the state, but however, noted that only registered individuals living in the state would benefit and urged the staff to register themselves and their families.

Responding on behalf of the management and staff of the ministry, the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Dr. Godwin Mpi, expressed the hope that government’s plans for Rivers people in the health sector would come to reality and pledged the support and loyalty of the staff to Governor Chibuike Amaechi-led tenure.

In a related development, Dr. Parker, who also visited the Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital (BMSH), shortly after his assumption of duty assured that government would address the challenges of the hospital to make it more beneficial to the people of the state.

He announced that the existing general hospitals in the state would be collapsed into six zonal hospitals to cater for referrals from the primary health centers to reposition the BMSH to function as a tertiary hospital and to reduce its work load.

Tonye Nria-Dappa