Enugu Inaugurates free Healthcare Programme for women, children
The Enugu State Government has targeted about one million children for free drugs, medical consumables and other routine services in its ongoing Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Week programme.
The programme, the first round in the year, is also designed to reach out to 280,000 pregnant women when they attend antenatal programmes in health facilities scattered within the state.
Inaugurating the programme in Enugu on Wednesday, the Wife of Enugu State Governor, Mrs. Monica Ugwuanyi, urged pregnant women to take attendance to anta-natal seriously while also enjoining them to ensure they carry out necessary tests to understand their conditions better.
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The wife of the governor also stressed the importance of focusing on gender and sexual-based violence and checking the use of drugs and substance abuse among children within the home.
The Executive Secretary, Enugu State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. George Ugwu, said that the programme was being carried out twice yearly under the guidance of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency.
In a goodwill message, the Chairman, Enugu Assembly Committee on Health, Chief Sam Ngene, commended Governor Ugwuanyi’s administration’s stride on health. The chaian gave the assurance that the house would continue to make laws to better healthcare delivery in the state.
The state’s Commissioner for Health, Prof. Ikechukwu Obi, represented by the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Dr. Ifeanyi Agujiobi, thanked the governor, U-TOLF Foundation, WHO, UNICEF, NPHCDA, and others for their support that had kept the state’s health sector running smoothly.
