Delta Urges LGA To Build Laboratory In Health Centre

The Delta Government, has directed the Head of Personnel
Management, Warri North Local Government Area of the state to provide funds for
setting up a Laboratory Department at the health centre.

Delta Commissioner for Local Government, Mr Newworld
Safugha,  gave the directive in Koko in
the Warri North Local Government during the inspection of projects in the area.

Safugha said that the Department of Health, which was
renovated by the council, would not be complete without a functional laboratory
department.

He explained that with a laboratory department, clinical
laboratory test and diagnosis would be undertaken without the patients going through
the rigours of looking for where to run tests.

He also inspected the project site for the fish farm that
the council intended to set up, and directing the council to take the directive
of the government on councils establishing agricultural farms seriously.

Safugha, who also noted that it would lead to increase in
food production in the state, said that the government was committed to
partnering with local councils in order to ensure that the grassroots benefited
from government’s programmes.

The commissioner explained that the on-going inspection of
projects in local government councils in the state was to verify projects that
had been completed, but yet to be paid for.

He said that this would enable his office to make
recommendations to the state government for payments to be effected to
contractors, whose jobs had been certified okay by the inspection team.

At Ethiope West Local Government Council, Safugha inspected
the on-going interlocking and landscaping of the secretariat complex, the
legislative arm building complex as well as the renovation of the old
legislative arm building.

Similarly, in Sapele Local Government Council, he also
inspected the 150 KVA generator and generator house built by the council, as
well as the Omiemiedi Pimary Health care centre.

He also directed the Head of Personnel Management to provide
a generator for the health centre in the locality to aid in effective service
delivery.

In their separate addresses of welcome, the heads of
personnel management in the three local councils visited, solicited the state
government’s support in the release of funds to their councils.

The heads of personnel, who said the release of funds would
enable them to fulfil the councils’ contractual obligations, also lauded the
initiative of the ministry to embark on the inspection tour.

They said that it would afford the commissioner’s team an
opportunity of first hand information on how judiciously the councils had been
using the funds so far allocated to them.