The Executive Secretary Anambra state Health Insurance Agency, Dr Simeon Onyemaechi has hailed Governor Willie Obiano for providing Standard Quality Healthcare System in the state over the last seven years.
Dr Onyemaechi, made the commendation while being interviewed by a media team in Awka.
According to him the Governor has made a remarkable progress in the Health Sector by equipping all state health facilities in the twenty-one Local Government Areas in Anambra.’
He said that part from providing standard health buildings, other facilities provided include Ambulances and Solar-powered Direct Drive Refrigeration.
Dr Onyemaechi noted that even though Anambra State had a working health system, Governor Obiano over the last seven years recorded major improvements and instituted standard administrative procedures in the primary, secondary and tertiary levels.
He said that the Primary Healthcare Centres did not have an organised Administrative System which made the current Government to introduce an Agency known as Anambra State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, ASPHCDA, to coordinate affairs of the PHC Centres in the state.
Dr Onyemaechi noted that at least sixty-three Primary Health Centres across the state had undergone total rehabilitation and were fully equipped with hospital equipment.
He added that Healthcare workers had a salary raise of about forty per cent, bringing them at par with what their counterparts in the Federal Civil Service earn.
Dr Onyemaechi observed that before the coming of Governor Obiano student doctors experienced difficulties in graduating from Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, COOUTH, after about ten years because of non-accreditation of the medical unit of the institution, saying immediately Governor Obiano assumed office, the mandatory conditions for the accreditation were met and the student doctors were able to graduate.
Dr Onyemaechi, restated that one of the good things Obiano also brought to Anambra Health System was the introducing Healthcare Financing through the establishment of Anambra State Health Insurance Agency, ASHIA,
According to him, in years to come, Governor Obiano will be remembered as the Man who instituted the Anambra version of National Health Services, NHS, of the United Kingdom, which will not just serve Ndi Anambra but will lead the way toward achieving Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria.
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