Coldie:

[s]I am not chino, it pains me so much that rivers state is wasting away[/s]

Chino go and take care of your potopoto republic.

Rivers state has never asked for your opinion. You better go and fix your erosion ravaged SE. Rivers is doing better than your 5 SE states combined.

Coldie:

The state is not doing anything, they are just stealing the state dry.

Rivers state IGR is higher than that of Kano, rivers state receives much more allocation than kano, but can u compare the development level of the two?

Okay?? What should I do with this information? Did I ask for a second opinion?

Coldie:

Not just in Nigeria Africa as a whole. Am average African politician sees tax payers money as his personal money, so u need to push them to use our own money to work for us

It really is a shame.

The service delivery aspect is more than key otherwise all this will be rubbished. Good start.

TonyOputa:
In 2015, Nigeria’s Infant Mortality rate was estimated at 78.7 deaths per 1000 live births. 2 years after that, Nigeria ranked No.9 on the list of countries with the highest rate of infant Mortality Rate. (CIA World Facts)

Infant mortality is the death of an infant before his or her first birthday. The infant mortality rate is the number of infant deaths for every 1,000 live births. (CDC.gov)

Aside from Infant Mortality, another area of concern is Maternal Mortality.

In 2015, Nigeria’s estimated maternal mortality ratio was over 800 maternal deaths per 100 000 live births, with approximately 58 000 maternal deaths during that year. By comparison, the total number of maternal deaths in 2015 in the 46 most developed countries was 1700, resulting in a maternal mortality ratio of 12 maternal deaths per 100 000 live births. In fact, a Nigerian woman has a 1 in 22 lifetime risk of dying during pregnancy, childbirth or postpartum/post-abortion; whereas in the most developed countries, the lifetime risk is 1 in 4900. (WHO.it)

A look at the statistics above shows that there is more to do as regards Mother and Child Care health.

Towards the end of the last administration, the State Government in an agreement with the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC planned on the Construction of a Mother and Child Hospital which was intended as a joint ownership between the State Government and the NDDC. Funds where said to have been released by the then government in power. However, the project was stalled and abandoned as NDDC failed on their part to provide its own counterpart funding.

With Gov. Wike coming to power in 2015, and with the many legal tussle that ensued till 2016, the Governor announced in the late part of 2016 that the State Government was cancelling its Joint Ownership Agreement with NDDC for their failure in paying their counterpart funds. He also stated that the State Government was taking over full funding of the project and the final tranche of payment for the completion of the project had been made to the contractor.

Due to the Governor’s desire to see to the speedily completion of the facility, Governor Wike also went on to release over 70 percent of the funding need for the purchase of equipment for the said Hospital.

The Ultra-modern Mother and Child Hospital in Port Harcourt is aimed at providing specialised services in the areas of Mother and Childcare. The magnitude of the facility is deliberately constructed to serve the need of the state in that regards.

Apart from the Ultra-modern Mother and Child Hospital, the NEW Administration have made many interventions in the health sector.

From the establishment of a Medical School in the Rivers State University, to the upgrading of the former Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital to the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital with an investment of $10Million in purchased medical equipment. The massive intervention in the renovation of otherwise moribund secondary healthcare institutions in the state with the simultaneous rehabilitation of several General Hospitals, the Construction of Magnificent Dima Denni-Fiberesima Doctors Quarters and the approval of the implementation of the corrected Consolidated Medical Salary Scale for doctors in Rivers State service.

The Government also embarked on the Construction of 4 Multi-Storey Regional Referral Hospitals in Bori, Degema, Okehi and Omoku, and also saw to the reconstruction, furnishing, and equipping of some of General Hospitals across variously LGAs of the state.

Heath is a priority as far as human existence is concerned and the “NEW” Administration has treated it in same manner. Governor Wike also hinted on the Government’s plan to construct an international Specialist Hospital during a visit to him by the National President, Nigerian Medical Association. He said that the proposed New Specialist Hospital will promote medical tourism in Rivers State. According to the Governor, the new specialist hospital will have a helipad, modern equipment for the treatment of cancer, kidney, heart and liver diseases. It is aimed at stemming foreign trips by Nigerians for healthcare services hereby conserving foreign exchange for the country.

The commitment of the “NEW” administration in the area of healthcare is one without doubts as empirical evidence abound. However, with the administration having 3 more years to go, we hope and look forward to further interventions and development in the sector.


Ugochukwu Oputa (@UgoOputa) writes from Port Harcourt.

This is similar to former Ondo state gov Mimiko initiative. This Akeredolu is as rot as a Rottweiler all Mimiko initiative has been destroyed by Akeredolu useless man.

If you you dare quote me on this it won't be well with you and your entire family.

He has left all the projects at the mercy of mother nature idiotic governor no difference between him and Agagu, Agagu is even better than him.

Big project big extortion.... lol

See how youths are falling over themselves worshipping a politician doing what he was elected to do.

I bet you, the worst built NHS hospital in UK is finer than this and the best built NHS in UK is far more beautiful and costs less than this.

Maintenance is a problem. I wonder how they will look when you come there next few years.

Check the general hospitals built in the 90s and see how they are now.

God.. wetyn delta state dey do sef?? wetyn okowa dey do with our money?? chai.. I'm in pain.

Coldie:


If oil was to stop flowing right now. The south south would go broke instantly.

But the north will still survive, apart from oil what else does the south south produce to the rest of Nigeria?

Unfortunately oil will never ever dry up and the north will keep on depending on it while the south south develops itself to world standard cities...we produce our foods and they are far healthier

Instead of him to rehabilitate all the health centers Amaechi built in all the ward across the state.

I mean Amaechi built good health centers across all the wards in the state.

Till today people are not employed and yet abandoned

He is coming to waste money on this at the centre of Portharcourt.

Can grand ma from the village have access to this facility??

Weirdrubies:






U too work hard and build men own.

by his grace, I will

The structures are extraordinary. But, it is hard to create or retain even the few upcom top quality manpower in the country wit quota and poor remunerations. So, how shall we get top services after good structures?

Factfinder1:


Unfortunately oil will never ever dry up and the north will keep on depending on it while the south south develops itself to world standard cities...we produce our foods and they are far healthier

U dont produce your food.

During the corona virus lockdown why were their always trucks coming in from the north if really u produce your food?

Coldie:

U dont produce your food.

During the corona virus lockdown why were their always trucks coming in from the north if really u produce your food?

Because your people were running from the hunger and lack of money in the north..all the trucks carried cattles for grazing and different almajiris who wanted to go and liter our streets and do shoe maker and hawking jobs

Factfinder1:


Because your people were running from the hunger and lack of money in the north..all the trucks carried cattles for grazing and different almajiris who wanted to go and liter our streets and do shoe maker and hawking jobs

So u beleive all those people u see engaging in shoe making and Hawking are from the north?

Then u can beleive anything

SmartPolician:
I think Wike is trying, but Rivers people need to stop producing thugs as governors

Wike's voice often makes me wonder who made him a lawyer. That man don use Indian hemp scatter him voice

Please get a decent man like Dakuku Peterside

What does your gentle Amaechi offered during his tenure? Enemy of progress.

What is "ultra-modern"?

What does that even mean?

Why do useless Nigerian politicans throw such stupid terms around?

Ademoore07:
What does your gentle Amaechi offered during his tenure? Enemy of progress.

First of all, Amaechi is not a gentleman

Second of all, Amaechi did an amazing job in Rivers

Perhaps you just relocated to PH or you just started listening to the news

Please ask questions

TonyOputa:
Multi Storey regional referral Hospital, Degema

Op comot old pictures and nack dem current state of those pixes..

TonyOputa:
Doctors Quarters

What of nurses?

Don't they deserve their own quarters?

This is a good development, if only other governors would tow same line instead of stealing monies meant for the people.

Well done gov Wike.
More grease to your elbows.


In Imo state, Rochas Okorocha built cartoon and wood together for market in the state capital but later called it 1000 bed Mother and Child Hospital.


Okorocha said he was building state capital to modern city, but he never provided public water for the city. 1000 bed hospital but no public water supply in a city of close to one million people. Other less populated towns in his state were demoted to rural areas by Okorocha.

SmartPolician:
I think Wike is trying, but Rivers people need to stop producing thugs as governors

Wike's voice often makes me wonder who made him a lawyer. That man don use Indian hemp scatter him voice

Please get a decent man like Dakuku Peterside

Rivers State needed a STRONG HAND in other to wrest the state out of apc. Dakuku should go and sleep.

Siberia01:
commendable
I think Nigeria
is the fastest and the best in terms of healthcare
in Africa ������

No talk am again ooh. It will take Nigeria 30 years of serious work to match with SA, not to talk of Rwanda, Egypt, Morocco, Angola. Naija far abeg.

12345baba:
Just mother and child. Men done suffer sha

suffer no be small. and na man go pay the hospital bill

See the legacy a Governor is laying and our own Governor in Ekiti is junketing up and down causing trouble at home and in Abuja. . Who has bewitched Ekiti land ?

12345baba:
Just mother and child. Men done suffer sha

I nor fit laugh. Men nor dey push na.

Good one but I hope it will be maintained.

Sammy07:
He tried.

He tired?? I'm sure you're one of those broom fans

PrecioussB:


He tired?? I'm sure you're one of those broom fans

What do you expect me to say?
To be worshipping politicians?

When did you ever see me siding in politics

Look well, before you make a mistake of identity

chigoizie7:


No talk am again ooh. It will take Nigeria 30 years of serious work to match with SA, not to talk of Rwanda, Egypt, Morocco, Angola. Naija far abeg.

lol why bro