The
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has charged Medical and Health
Workers to show high sense of commitment and sincerity in the discharge of
their duties.
Governor
Uduaghan gave the charge during the official flag-off ceremony of the 2012/2013
edition of the State Free Rural Health Scheme at Illah in Oshimilli North Local
Government Area.
The
Governor stated that with a formidable medical and health team that was committed
and sincere, the fight to rid the state especially rural areas of sicknesses
and diseases would not be impossible.
Dr.
Uduaghan said that the programme had continued to experience improvement with
every edition since its inception in 2005, adding that surgical care was
introduced into the scheme in 2008, even as he stated that dental care and
immunization were introduced into the scheme in 2011.
According
to him, the 2012/2013 edition had come with the inclusion of a Mobile Field
Hospital to attend to surgical cases on the spot.
Earlier
in an address, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Joseph Otumara stated that the
major aim of the scheme apart from combating diseases and other ailments was to
take healthcare services to the doorsteps of Deltans especially the less
privileged in all the 25 Local Government Areas of the State.
Dr. Otumara said the annual
statistics of the scheme from 2008 through 2011 revealed that a total of 78,614
persons from 368 communities distributed across the 25 LGAs of the State were
treated for a wide range of disease conditions, adding surgeries recorded 4,740
cases.
While elaborating on the Mobile
Field Hospital, the Health Commissioner said that it had the capacity to
provide full healthcare delivery of a standard hospital.
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