RSG’ll Support Interventions To Improve Healthcare, Wike Affirms

The Rivers State Government has said that it would continue to support all interventions to improve the health status of Rivers people.
The state Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike stated this during the flag off ceremony of Bonny Island Insecticide Treated Net Distribution as part of the Bonny Malaria Elimination Project, last Saturday.
Represented by his Deputy, Dr Ipalibo Harry Banigo, the governor said he remains extremely passionate about the health of Rivers people, noting that he would continue to promote the availability of accessible, qualitative, and affordable health services.
Wike, who said Malaria was still a major public health concern and killer of children, revealed that it causes anaemia in pregnancy and causes the low birth weight of the newborn.
“It is very important that we can be able to address it with this project and we thank the His Majesty and the good people of Bonny Kingdom for receiving the project here, and for running with it and we said that today we should encourage our people to embrace all the other public health interventions to preventable child health diseases, immunizations, and vaccination against COVID-19. I think it is a good time to say that all our communities should embrace all the interventions and ensure that we continue to have a healthy populace”.
The governor, who said he was delighted to be a part of auspicious occasion of distributing insecticide treated nets for the Bonny Kingdom Malaria Elimination Project, thanked the NLNG and partners for choosing Bonny for this project in Rivers State.