DELTA OFFERS FREE MEDICAL TREATMENT TO OVER 2000 PATIENTS AT MNCHW.


By Andy Adaigbe (FLAGNEWS).

ASABA.


The wife of the Delta state governor,  Dame Edith Okowa, says the importance of antenatal and post natal care can not be over emphasized.


 The governor's wife made the assertion while declaring open, the 2017 Second Round of Maternal Newborn Child Health Week (MNCHW), at the OSHIMILI south Arcade, Asaba.


 She urged parents especially mothers, to take seriously, the immunization of their children against different ailments even as she disclosed that the state government had embarked on free medical treatment for the disabled, the under 5 and above 65 of age.

Earlier, the commissioner for health, Dr. Nicholas Azinge, disclosed that the Integrated Maternal Newborn and Child Health Programme (IMNCH) was a strategy implemented as a simple one-off approach to the delivery of a combination of services that immediately bring about desired outcomes in respect of significantly increasing coverage levels of the core preventive and curative interventions that enable mother and child to thrive and develop.


The health commissioner also listed the package of intervention and the benefits of the MNCHW and advised parents, guardians and other care givers to take advantage of the numerous health programmes of the state government by accessing the free health services being provided especially for the most vulnerable groups such as pregnant women, the new-born and children all through to 5 years of age adding that it would enable them have healthier and more fruitful years.

For her part, the chairman of the state primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Isioma Okobah, who expressed gratitude to the state governor, Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa for giving her the opportunity to contribute to the development and strengthening of the Primary Health Care services in the state,  expressed commitment to work effectively with the health ministry in upholding and nurturing the ideals of the primary health care which according to her, was the bedrock of the entire health care delivery system.


 Dr. Okobah listed the MNCHW preventive services to include: Immunization, Deworming, Vitamin A/micro nutrients supplementation, distribution of long lasting insecticide nets, screening of under 5 children for malnutrition, antenatal and post natal Care, birth registration, among others.


She also said the expected outcome was an integrated basic health delivery service system, improved coverage for routine immunization, and other maternal and child survival services, such as nutrition, sensitisation,  among others.


 Dr. Okobah further commended the health workers and partners, stressing that all hands must be on deck to support and strengthen the Primary Health Care service delivery, especially in the rural communities.

 Highlight of the ceremony included  the Vaccination of children by the wife of the state governor, the DSPHCDA and the Ministry of Health, goodwill messages from the partners, such as the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), WHO, UNICEF, AFENET, Micronutrient Initiative (MI), The Challenge Initiative (TCI), NPHCDA, SOML, ROTARY, among others.











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