Road Projects’ll Reduce Mortality Rate In PH, Resident Doctors Affirm

The Association of Resident Doctors, Rivers State University Teaching Hospital branch, says the recent commissioning of flyover bridges and road projects across various parts of the state would decongest traffic gridlock faced in parts of the state capital, and reduce high mortality rate among health care seekers in the state.
The state President of the association, Dr George Ela, stated this while addressing journalists after the just-concluded ordinary Annual General Meeting of the body at the PAMO Students’ Lecture Hall at the state University Teaching Hospital in Port Harcourt, over the weekend.
Ela said that those people criticising the governor over the construction of the flyovers and roads should realise it would decongest traffic in the state, which has become a serious challenge for people struggling to access the health care services in the state.
According to him, many lives have been lost due to traffic challenges in their efforts to access hospital services, adding that with the inauguration of the various flyover bridges in the state, patients can now have hitch-free access to hospital services.
The ARD, RSUTH president averred that the association was happy with the state governor over the various infrastructural development projects going on in the health sector, saying that the gesture was towards improving and upgrading the health sector, with a view giving the expected access to the accreditation of unaccredited departments in the hospital.
“The commissioning of the flyover bridges will reduce the high mortality rate and remove the bottlenecks people experience in getting access the hospitals. We are happy with this bold step taken by the governor to reduce mortality rate on our roads.
“We are happy with the upcoming magnificent hospital, the Mother and Child Hospital. The traffic gridlock affecting health care service delivery will now be minimised”, he stated.
He used the opportunity to appeal to the state chief executive to ensure that all the plans laid down for the development of the health sector through the realisation of the planned accreditation of all unaccredited departments for which funds have already been released, were implemented.
The president, however, used the opportunity to key into the vision and mission statement of the hospital, which according to him, informed the theme of the AGM, ‘Excellence in Training, Research in Service Delivery, Charting the Course’.
“We are going to sensitise our members to make excellence and research in service delivery in the hospitals their watchword”, he stated.