RSHA To Amend School Of Nursing Law

The Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Otelemaba Amachree has urged the Ministry of Health to forward to the House relevant bill that would give separate autonomy to the School of Nursing and School of Health Technology.

Hon. Amachree gave the indication, Thursday, in his office when the Commissioner for Health Dr. Sampson Parker led other senior officials of the Ministry on an advocacy visit.

The Speaker said the lawmakers are partners in the development of the State and would do all within the lofty programmes of the ministry to improve the health needs of the people.

He assured that the Assembly would be willing to amend the relevant sections of the law to allow the institution provide more man- power that would manage the health facilities being provided in the state.

On the menace of lassa fever epidemic, the Speaker said the lawmakers are better equipped to enlighten their constituents on how to prevent the sickness since they are closer to their people.

Hon. Amachree explained that since rodents act as agents for the transmission of the lassa fever epidemic, residents of the state should be properly educated to keep the environment clean.

On the reduction of Mosquito in the state, the lawmaker challenged the Commissioner for Health to continue with the spreading of bylavicytes programme to ensure that more successes were recorded to eradicate the scourge of malaria.

Earlier, the Health Commissioner, Dr. Sampson parker said they were in the Assembly on an advocacy visit to intimate the lawmaker of the threat posed by lassa fever epidemic on the people of the state.