Photo: Ika South LGA Vice Chairman, Hon. Gory Oneagbor, 8th from right, In a group photograph with Primary Healthcare Workers during a facility assessment tour recently.
The Chairman of Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State, Hon. Jerry Ehiwarior has said that quality healthcare delivery at the local government level remained a cardinal point of his administration, assuring the people of Ika South of his administration’s commitment to strengthening healthcare delivery at the community level.
Hon. Ehiwarior made the remarks on Friday at the end of a one-week facilities assessment tour to the twenty-two Primary Healthcare Centres in Ika South Local Government Area.
The council chairman, represented by the vice chairman, Hon Glory Onyeagbor, emphasized that the assessment exercise was in line with the local administration’s bottom – Top approach in healthcare delivery by ensuring that citizens at the grassroots receive regular quality healthcare across the twenty-two Primary Healthcare Centres across the council area.
The assessment tour ended at Ogbeisogban Primary Healthcare Centre where the Officer in Charge (OIC), Mrs. Victoria Egede commended the Council helmsman for taking out time to carry out an on- the-spot assessment of the status of Primary Healthcare Centres in the locality, assuring that healthcare workers would continue to carry out their assigned duties as caregivers at the preventive level for the benefit of the masses. She narrated the challenges while calling for more attention to improve the quality of healthcare service across the PHCS.
While commending the caregivers at the health centresfor their display of professionalism in the discharge of their duties, Ehiwarior also appreciated the state government, donor agencies and other partners for their investments in primary health care in the council area, even as he noted that a lot still needed to be done.
In separate remarks, other stakeholders in the health sector within the local government area, including theChairman, House Committee on Health, Hon. Bright Dikenwosi, and the Head of Department /Acting Executive Secretary of Health in the council, Mrs. Uche Ogwu, stated that the facility tour was necessary to see first-hand the challenges of healthcare delivery in the council area as well as getting local residents involved in policy implementation.
