As Anambra state commemorates its thirty-one years of creation, stakeholders in the health sector say Anambra has not fared badly over the years.
Our health correspondent Chibuzor Okoye who took a critical look at the state Health sector and the journey so far reports that Anambra state has had successive governments that tried to lift the socioeconomic well being of Ndi Anambra especially significant efforts to improve the state Health sector.
While Mr. Obi built most of the buildings at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Amaku Awka, some General Hospitals and Primary Health Centres across the state, Governor Obiano introduced the Anambra state Health Insurance Agency (ASHIA), Anambra state Primary Healthcare Development Agency, built some hospitals among others and now being complemented by Governor Chukwuma Soludo.
Speaking on the significance of the day, the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Afam Obidike said that Anambra is on a mission of becoming one of the states with the best medical services in terms of availability, affordability and efficient service delivery.
The Managing Director, Anambra State Health Insurance Agency, Dr. Simeon Onyemaechi said that the agency has continued to do a lot of interventions, using innovative healthcare financing, as according to him, they have enrolled about one hundred and seventy thousand residents of the state into the scheme.
For the Chief Medical Director, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Amaku Awka, Dr. Joe Akabuike who was a one time Anambra state Commissioner for Health, the state has not fared badly in the health sector, and revealed that the hospital has undergone a lot of transformation in both infrastructural and efficient service delivery, as they have one of the best functional dialysis in Nigeria and that plans are underway to commence kidney transplant in the hospital.
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