RVHA Probes Healthcare Board

The Rivers State House of Assembly has constituted a committee to probe the activities of the Rivers State Primary Health Care Management board following the falling standard of the Primary healthcare system in the state.
The Speaker, Rt.Hon. Otelemaba Dan-Amachree constituted the committee headed by the Deputy Leader, Hon Robinson Nname Ewor, has as members the chairperson House committee on health, Hon. Irene Inimgba, representing Port Harcourt 1, Hon Belema Okpokiri, Okrika, Hon Okechukwu Akara Nwaogu, Oyigbo, Hon Ibiso N. Nwuche and Hon. Benibo Fedrick Anabraba.
The Deputy Leader, Hon Robinson Nname Ewor had moved a motion on the floor of the house based on the falling standard of the healthcare system in the state, noting that it was not the vision of the present administration to establish the board.
The lawmaker while presenting the motion said the board management had failed in its duties to implement the law passed by the Assembly in 2010, and has instead decided to operate a different system rather than the one approved by law.
According to him, ‘’It is sad to note that since 2010 that the house passed the Rivers State Primary Health Care Management law up to when government constituted the board to commence work till date, some critical aspects of the laws have been abandoned by the board with some of their collaborators yet unknown to this house’’
He said, that “the board instead of implementing the law in its totality, has chosen selective administration with a substandard policy

Parents and Guardians waiting for their children and wards writing entrance examination into Special Senior Science Secondary Schools in Abuja, last Saturday