WHO Tasks RSG On Quality Healthcare

From Left: The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Adetunji, Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari,Wife of the Governor of Oyo State, Mrs Florence Ajimobi, and Governor Abiola Ajimobi, at a Free Health Screening Programme for women organised by the Future Assured Initiative (Mrs Buhari’s Pet Project), in Ibadan last Thursday

The World Health
Organisation (WHO) has called on the Rivers State Government to double its efforts in ensuring the delivery of quality healthcare to the people and residents of the state.
The WHO Country Representative in Nigeria, Dr Rui Gama Vas, who made the call during his visit on the state Governor, Nyesom Wike, Wednesday, said the quality delivery was most needful in the areas of primary health and emergency response.
While noting that the good health status of a given people depends largely on these two areas, Gama Vas averred that a quality delivery on them proves the level of  concern and commitment of the government to health of its people.
Gama Vas expressed optimism on the state government in delivering the dividends of democracy to its citizens especially in the area of health and assured that the WHO would not relent in providing the needed technical assistance to the state in critical areas of public health administration.
“The government needs to strengthen its primary healthcare and emergency response capacity in the interest of qualitative health for the people.  We will be there to provide the needed technical assistance in such critical areas”, Gama Vas said.
The WHO country representative further lauded the state government for its quick response to the Lassa fever epidemic and its containment.
Meanwhile, the Director, Public Health, Rivers State Ministry of Health, Dr Nnana Victor  Onyekwere, had also lauded the people of the state for their cooperation in the fight against the spread of Lassa fever in the state.
Onyekwere told The Tide that the state can be said to be relatively free of the disease since there has not been any incidence since the last one.
In his words, “Rivers State is relatively safe of Lassa fever but not completely because the disease is still there in the country.  Since the last incidence, there has not been any other and so can say its free but then there is an incidence in Kaduna which is still our country”.

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