Abia establishes integrated health delivery system

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has said that a new health initiative known as integrated health care delivery service will kick off in the state soon.

Ikpeazu, who disclosed this at Eluama Isuikwuato LGA of the state while commissioning the Eluama Primary Health Centre reconstructed and equipped by a son of the community, Emmanuel Mbaka, said the initiative would bring about the upgrading of health facilities across the state.

The governor said primary, secondary and tertiary health facilities in the state would get a boost, adding that it was expected that a super tertiary health facility that would undertake heart transplant would be available in the state in the next two years.

According to Ikpeazu, the state government will spend about N1 billion in providing healthcare services to the people in the next one month, and assured that the process of making the Eluama Health Centre a cottage hospital had begun.

He promised to construct a 2-kilometre access road to the hospital and commended Mbaka for assisting the government in meeting the needs of the people.

In his speech, the benefactor, Mbaka, who is the chairman, Emma Mbaka Foundation, described healthcare as essential and said the centre would provide healthcare to the people of the community and other Abians free of charge.

Also, the transition committee chairman of Isuikwuato LGA, Christopher Osondu, thanked the governor for his love for Isuikwuato people and pleaded with him to construct the road leading to the hospital.