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Enugu state government has vowed to fight high maternal motarity rate to a standstill through provision of necessary equipments to all the health facilities.
The state governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi who dropped the governments plan promised to rehabilite all the health facilities in the state and ensure provision of both logistics and adequate equipments to all the facilities to sustain the free maternal health programme in the state.
Ugwuanyi who was addressing about 1000 children, nursing and pregnant mother at park lane hospital Enugu to flag off the first round of the state 2017 Maternal, New born and Child Health(MNCH) week also promised to make all necessary polices that will create enabling environments for the primary health care in the state to perform effectively.
Ugwuanyi highly commended the WHO, UNICEF and other state holders in their various contributions to the growth of primary health care in the state and promise to continue paying the state counter part fund regularly.
The newly appointed Enugu state commissioner for Health Chinwike Echochin said the child health week would be a week of action for the treatment of Children under five and mothers.
He said it is one of the state government priority in health care delivery hence the state governor left every other programme to physically come to flag it off and called all the affected mother to kindly take their children to nearby health facilities close to them and take the interventions free of charge.
He also thanked major stakeholders who he said always demonstrated commitment to health development in Enugu.
“You may be away that Nigeria still record a very high maternal newborn and child motarity, we have as much as 554 per a hundred thousand maternal death, it is below the millennium development goals and it calls for action”
He said that within the week full implementation of all the interventions needed are being reorganised and implemented.
Speaking also was the Enugu state Director of Public Health services, Okechukwu Osai said the activity was conceived to address the challenges bordering on issues with high under five moterity in Nigeria. “so this programme was meant to address these issues. It is a composite programme that is made up with a lot of interventions, they are all healthy interventions and since 2010 we have religiously carried out this programme two times every year and it has reasonably addressed the issues in the state.
Other stakeholders who spoke and promised to continue paying attention to all matters relating to women and children in the state were the state heads of UNICEF and WHO, among others.
Regis Anukwuoji, Enugu
