Rotary Donates Water Toilet Facilities To Elekahia

Rotary  club of Port
Harcourt has constructed a water sanitation project and six room toilet facilities at the Elekehia community market, in Port Harcourt city local government area.
Speaking during the commissioning and formal handover of the project at the Elekahia Market recently, the District Governor of Rotary District 9140, Charles Onianwa, commended the Rotary club of Port Harcourt for carrying out the project to alleviate the plight of the traders.
The district governor who was represented by Rotarian Sam Mba said the projects were in line with the objectives of Rotary international which   is centred on humanitarian services.
In his remark, the President  of the Rotary Club of Port Harcourt, Rotarian Chidi Ikeji said the project was intended  to provide convenience to the traders and promote good sanitation  habits  among them.
He said the Rotary club of Port Harcourt had earlier engaged in other community development services, such as the medical outreach programmes, in Oroworokwo and other parts of Port Harcourt and  pledged the commitment of the Club to humanitarian  engagements.
Receiving the facilities on behalf  of the  traders, the Women Leader, Amaeli women council in  Elekahia Mrs Mary Amadi, thanked the Rotary club of Port Harcourt for the  project which included a 7KVA Generator to power the facilities.
She said  drinking water and toilet facilities had been major challenges of the traders noting that the  construction of water and toilet facilities put smiles on the faces of the traders.
Also speaking, the Paramount Ruler of Elekahia Community, Chief Anthony Akarolo, thanked Rotary Club of Port Harcourt for the projects and advised the traders to make judicious use of them.
Also, the Rotary Club of Port Harcourt, District, 9140, Nigeria, has trained  nurses a one-day workshop, covering the 23 local government areas of Rivers State.
Speaking, the President of the club, Rotarian, Chidi Ikeji  said  the workshop,  tagged, Maternal and child  Health, wa  designed to train nurses   on the Prevention  of  Mother  to Child  Transmission (PMTCT) of the  Human Immuno Virus (HIV), and  the effective ways of administering immunisation.  Ikeji said, the programmes was part of the club’s community service project.
In his paper, titled, HIV/AIDS: prevention of mother  to child transmission, Dr Golden Owhonda said it was needful to train nurses at this time, “because  studies have shown that  Nigerians’ access to PMTCT was still at its lowest. There is therefore  need to create access to the service  and the service  is a simple intervention that is very effective”.
He stated that, the service was a hospital-based service adding that more nurses  need to be trained for more access to service.
“If we are  able to create heavy access,  we would  be able to interrupt the virus  and  achieve  elimination  especially as it concerns the transmission  of the virus from mother to the unborn  child,” he said.
In her paper, the Director, Immunization, Rivers State Primary Health Care Management Board, Dr Wilson C, said immunication was one of the most cost-effective healthcare interventions. A proven tool for controlling and eliminating life threatening infectious, diseases while preventing and estimated  2.5 million deaths”.
She charged the nurse to diligent in the administration of vaccines.

 
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