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Speaker Assures On Public Health Securities Bill
Residents of Enugu State have been assured of speedy passage of the proposed Enugu State Public Health Securities Bill, anytime the final draft of the bill is ready.
Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Chief Edward Ubosi, gave the assurance in Enugu, weekend, at a two-day Retreat on the Importance of the Proposed Enugu State Public Health Securities.
Represented by the Deputy Speaker, Chief Uchenna Ugwu, Ubosi said the retreat was organised by the Enugu State House of Assembly in collaboration with African Centre for Entrepreneurship and Information to Development (ACEIDEV) and Resolve to Save Lives.
He expressed happiness that the retreat to address the proposed Enugu State Public Health Securities Bill was coming at the appropriate time.
The Speaker said the bill would solve lots of teething health issues in the state, especially legal issues in administration of public health securities and public health emergencies meant for the safety of the residents.
His words: “It is a very good one and it will benefit all stakeholders in the health sector. It will help the state and her residents to easily tackle public health emergencies for over all public good”.
Ubosi further promised that when the draft of the document (bill) is out, probably as an Executive Bill, it would be given accelerated hearing and attention on the floor of the house.
Speaking, Chairman of the House Committee on Health, Chief Sam Ngene, said at the end of the retreat, the committee members must have been fit and able to do justice to the proposed bill.
According to him, “this retreat will give each member the leverage to understand and key into the need for the bill and once it is presented to the house it will go through smoothly and timely.
“The bill will take care of all public health emergency situations that might arise as well as related issues.
“I must thank our partners – ACEIDEV and Resolve to Save Lives – for their technical support meant to help us come out with a bill that will last the test of time and truly serve our people”.
The chairman, however, revealed that during the COVID-19 in the state; the state was prepared in terms of manpower, medical provisions and logistics but “the state lacked the legal framework to act on public health emergencies”.
In an address, the state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Ikechukwu Obi, said that the proposed bill, when passed and signed into law, would help to fill the loopholes in the existing public health laws in the state.
Obi, who was represented by the State Director of Public Health, Dr Boniface Okolo, said the proposed bill would allow health professionals and authorities to carry out their duties effectively and efficiently for public good.
“The bill will put everybody on the same page; especially on how to carry out public health emergencies during unannounced health emergencies such as COVID-19 and other eventual disease outbreaks”.
The Executive Director of ACEIDEV, Mr James Ugochukwu, said the proposed bill would help to strengthen the process as well as the power of the state to take charge of emergency public health securities and situations.
By: Canice Amadi, Enugu
Rivers state Deputy Governor Professor Ngozi Nma Odu has commended “The Port Harcourt City One Love,”a Port Harcourt based humanitarian orgnisation For it’s commitment towards alleviating the sufferings of the poor and vulnerable in the society.
Professor Ngozi Nma Odu said this while speaking at this year’s edition of “operation feed the needy” a yearly outreach program of “The Port Harcourt City One Love ” in Port Harcourt.
The Deputy Governor said by feeding more than sixty thousands hungry people within the past six years, the Port Harcourt City One Love Movement has distinguished itself as a club that cares for the less privilege in the society.
She commended the , organization for listing eleven thousand persons to be fed in the current exercise.
Meanwhile The Port Harcourt City One Love has planned a permanent solution to the problem of feeding the poor in the state.
The leader of the group Mr Idaere Gogo Ogan who said this in an interview with newsmen during the distribution of food items to the poor and vulnerables in Port Harcourt said the organization is planning a permanent food kitchen where poor and vulnerable persons can work in anytime and get fed.
Idaere Gogo Ogan said more than sixty thousands poor and vulnerable persons across Port Harcourt City and environs have been fed since the inception of “The operation feed the needy” program six years ago,adding that so far sixty thousands poor and vulnerable persons have beneffited.
He described the group as a platform to promote friendship, brotherhood, community development empathy and feeding the less privilege and hungry people
“That’s what we are doing today here,so we started the exercise six years ago”.he said.
Ogan said the effort was a private sector driven initiative but added “it also involves people in Government because the platform does not recognize any division,we bring everybody together in unity , friendship and brotherhood”he said.
He said the effort will go along way in alleviating hunger especially following the prevailing hunger in the country.
According to him “you know the country is very tough, people are hungry people are starving, there is a whole lot of economic hardship,so for us, this is just our own way of reaching out, our own social contribution to what is very difficult”he said.
Over eleven thousand persons were fed in the just concluded exercise.
Areas of coverage include, Isaac Boro park, Port Harcourt prison/Macoba, Borokiri/Enugu waterside Bundu areas Waterlines and others.
Some of the beneficiaries including an 80 years old widow commended the movement for the annual programm and urged other organizations to emulate them
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