Receives
Three Ambulances from SURE-P
The
Governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa’s effort towards effective and
affordable health care delivery for Deltans got a boost with the donation of
three ambulances to the state government.
The
Governor while receiving the ambulances from Dr Zolibe Anyamele, Programme
Assistant for Subsidy Reinvestment Programme (SURE-P) in Asaba, observed that
the ambulances would give a boost to the health care programmes of his
administration. Two of the ambulances were water ambulances while one is for
land.
He
stated that the ambulances would be deployed to the riverine communities where
they are needed asserting, “they are going to serve cluster communities in the
areas of their operations.”
While
noting that the donations of the ambulances “are right steps in the right
direction at the primary healthcare level,” the Governor reiterated, “that does
not take away the challenges that come with it because for now, we do not know
whether SURE-P is still going to stay funded because its primarily source of
funding is not available.”
Senator
Okowa emphasised that though primary healthcare centres were the prerogative of
the local government councils, that tier of government was witnessing a lot of
challenges as a result of poor funding.
“Ordinarily
primary healthcare centres would be with the local government councils but the
councils now cannot even pay salaries, it is only four out of our twenty five
local government areas that are stable financially at the moment, the rest
twenty-one are challenged and that is the kind of difficult situation that we
find ourselves,” he said.
The
Governor who inspected the ambulances which were locally manufactured and
equipped observed that the ambulances were of international standards and that
it was important for local manufacturers to be patronised as a way of giving
boost to the economy.
Earlier,
Dr Anyamele had informed the Governor that the ambulances were donated based on
the needs of the people.
Delta
State Deputy Governor, Barr. Kingsley Otuaro, Commissioners and other
government functionaries witnessed the event.
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