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Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, has rehabilitated 130 Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) across the state in less than four years in office. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Afam Ben Obidike, disclosed this at the premises of the newly constructed Solution Trauma Centre Awka, while briefing the press shortly after inspecting the facility with a team of Journalists on Thursday, October 30th, 2925. Obidike said the rehabilitated PHCs/hospitals and other newly constructed ones, including, the Okpoko General Hospital in Ogbaru Local Government Area, Solution Specialist Hospital Fegge, Onitsha South Local Government Area, Solution Rehabilitation Center Nibo, Awka South Local Government Area, Ekwulobia General Hospital, Aguata Local Government Area, Umueri General Hospital, Anambra East Local Government Area, Enugukwu General Hospital, Njikoka local government area, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University’s Teaching Hospital (COOUTH), Amaku-Awka and Solution General Hospital Anaku, Ayamelum local government area are part of the governor’s measures to improve healthcare delivery and bring healthcare services closer to the people. He said the state government had taken significant steps to improve the healthcare sector, which would ensure increased access to quality healthcare facilities by residents across the state, regardless of financial status. The Commissioner, who further noted that innovative measures were being taken by the current administration to transform the healthcare sector, expressed delight over private health investors’ interest in supporting the state government in ensuring a robust and resilient health system in Anambra. According to him, what Governor Soludo is doing is not all about reelection politics but the future generation of Anambra State. “His vision is to make Anambra the safest, healthiest, green, clean, digitalised, smart, livable and prosperous state in Nigeria. “In less than four years of his administration, Governor Soludo has proven himself as a visionary leader who thinks of the next generation and not the next election. His transformational policy is to ensure Anambra emerges as Nigeria’s destination hub by 2070. “The medical facilities tour with you, the media, is to let the World know what Governor Soludo has dutifully achieved in less than four years of his administration and also to let Ndi-Anambra know what their tax money has done. ‘One of the major aims of this administration is to ensure that Anambra residents, irrespective of tribe, ethnicity and religious affiliations, have access to quality healthcare. “About 130 primary health care centres (PHCs), have been fully rehabilitated with solar lights, constant water supply and functional 30kV generator sets. The Solution Trauma Centre Awka and the Solution Specialist Hospital Fegge Onitsha are in their finishing stages for official commissioning. We have migrated to a digitalised health care system with the establishment of Telemedicine. We also have functional 40 ambulance stations across major hospitals in the state. A total of 1,500 health workers have so far been recruited within the period under review. “We are targeting to be like India in the next five years. “All this and other uncountable achievements are micro to what the people of Anambra State will witness in the second term of Governor Soludo,” Obidike assured. He equally used the tour to solicit support for the governor’s reelection bid come Saturday, 8, 2025, the governorship election in the state. ALSO READ TOP STORIES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE
