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The World Health Organisation (WHO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and community leaders have commended the Governor Peter Mbah administration for its huge investment and commitment to primary healthcare in Enugu State.

This was even as the Executive Secretary of the Enugu State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (ENSPHDA), Dr. Ifeyinwa Ani-Osheku, revealed that the state had recorded an increase in visits to its Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) from 800,000 to 1.4 million, representing an 80 per cent increase, as well as an increase in Penta-3 immunisation coverage from 78.5 per cent to 88.9 per cent, surpassing the national target of 85 per cent.

They gave the commendations on the occasion of the combined 2026 Biannual Meeting and Supportive Supervisory Visit by Governor Mbah to Type 2 Primary Healthcare Centre, Ihe Ward, Nsukka Local Government Area of the state on Tuesday.

Speaking, the South East Zonal Coordinator of WHO Nigeria, Dr. Chukwumuanya Igbonekwu, described the governor’s continued supervisory visits to the state’s PHC facilities as a powerful catalyst for accountability, motivation, assessment of challenges and progress, and continuous improvement in service delivery.

“Therefore, WHO highly commends the Government of Enugu State for prioritising health sector investments and fostering an enabling environment for implementing key public health programmes,” he said, pledging WHO’s continued support to the administration's efforts to build resilient health systems capable of addressing current and emerging health challenges.

On his part, the Chief of UNICEF Field Office in Enugu, Juliet Chiluwe, represented by the Health Logistics Consultant, Dr. Charles Abel, commended the governor for a “steadfast commitment to optimising primary healthcare service delivery across the state.”

“Routine field oversight of this nature is clear evidence of a leadership that prioritises the health, survival, and well-being of its citizens, particularly vulnerable women and children,” she stated, reaffirming UNICEF’s commitment to supporting the government.

Meanwhile, Governor Mbah, who had held separate interactive meetings with traditional rulers and women leaders of Nsukka LGA, said his administration intentionally invested heavily in building 260 PHCs across the 260 wards of the state to ensure that nobody was left behind.

He expressed satisfaction that the investments in the PHCs had paid off by helping to drastically cut down maternal mortality, insisting that the state targets zero maternal mortality as “no woman should die giving birth in any part of Enugu State.”

The governor charged the traditional rulers, women leaders, and other grassroots leaders to use their influence to create awareness, champion immunisation, antenatal and postnatal care, encourage subscription to universal healthcare coverage, and monitor service delivery at their PHCs, escalating observed gaps to the authorities.

“I have also listened to our elders. We are going to have the MRI, the CT scan, and all the radiological services at the State University of Medical and Applied Sciences (SUMAS) Teaching Hospital so that you do not have to travel to Enugu to get full healthcare services. This I guarantee you,” he assured.

The Executive Secretary of the ENSPHDA, Dr. Ani-Osheku, noted that primary healthcare had experienced an uncommon leap under the Mbah administration.

“We built 260 brand-new health centres, one in every ward of Enugu State. Not one community left behind.

“We added 3,380 hospital beds and 520 baby cots at the ward level, capacity this state had never seen in its primary health system.

“We recruited 2,250 health workers and placed doctors at the helm so that competence is no longer the privilege of the city alone.

“The share of our mothers delivering safely, in trained hands, leapt from 40.9 per cent to 59.3 per cent in just six months.

“When we came in, our people made 800,000 visits to our health centres in a year. Today they make over 1.4 million (80% increase) because we made the clinics worth walking into.

“We nearly tripled the malaria treatment reaching our people. We put our clinics on computers, cut the time our people wait for care by nearly 70 per cent, tripled the medicines on the shelves, and brought ultrasound scans to the wards,” she stated.

In their remarks, the Chairman of Nsukka LGA, Engr. Jude Asogwa; Chairman of the Enugu State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Dr. Sunday Okafor; and the Commissioner for Health, Enugu State, Prof. George Ugwu, extolled Governor Mbah’s commitment to the health sector.

“So, as you are going back to Enugu, just have it at the back of your mind that you, our President, and all your lineup will be delivered in the 2027 general election,” Asogwa assured.

Governor Mbah today commissioned a newly built, fully equipped, 24-hour solar-powered Type-2 Primary Healthcare Centre in Ihe, Nsukka.

Ndi Enugu have continued to commend the administration's investment in improving access to quality healthcare in all the 260 electoral wards in… pic.twitter.com/pCilc7SZdj

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miyagi01:
This is presidential material who has the interest of the citizens at heart, not Peter Obi that is just going about doing emotional blackmail with a terrible antecedents

Tabithatim:
Speaking, the South East Zonal Coordinator of WHO Nigeria, Dr. Chukwumuanya Igbonekwu, described the governor’s continued supervisory visits to the state’s PHC facilities as a powerful catalyst for accountability, motivation, assessment of challenges and progress, and continuous improvement in service delivery.

“Therefore, WHO highly commends the Government of Enugu State for prioritising health sector investments and fostering an enabling environment for implementing key public health programmes,” he said, pledging WHO’s continued support to the administration's efforts to build resilient health systems capable of addressing current and emerging health challenges.

On his part, the Chief of UNICEF Field Office in Enugu, Juliet Chiluwe, represented by the Health Logistics Consultant, Dr. Charles Abel,

stuffs2002:
Is president Tinubu a magician or what?

Even Enugu is getting the dividends of democracy

I know Peter Obi and his horde of bitter OBIDIENTS will not be happy with this news

anonimi:
What group of politicians is more wicked than A-looter Propaganda Conmen, APC


https://x.com/BusinessDayNg/status/1554497253158658049


How we brought In Fulani militias from Mali, Sierra Leone, Senegal, others to win 2015 election — Kawu Baraje - mailchi.mp/businessday.ng…

Aug 2, 2022

Basic123:
Forget opposition governor sentiment hype

Otti is trying,considering long years of poor governance Abia has experienced,MBAH IS A BETTER PERFORMER!

Kudos to the president on the nation revenue drive too!

anonimi:
Tinubu sets 3-year economic revival, 50million jobs target

August 29, 2023

President Bola Tinubu who reiterated his commitment to economic revatalisation said he will not permit indolence or any act capable of derailing his ‘Renewed Hope Agenda’ by any of his ministers.

He gave a marching order to the 45-member of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) to perform or be ready to be fired for incompetence.
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Edun said the Tinubu administration inherited a bad economy with an unacceptable high rate of unemployment, and with inflation standing at 24%.

He said:“Per capital has fallen steadily, inflation is at 24 percent, unemployment is high, you know m are rebasing the way in which it’s calculated. Either way, it is high and youth unemployment is even unacceptably high, these are the key metrics that we have met.”
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Edun said: “Clearly, *the Federal Government is not in a position to borrow at this time*. Rather, the emphasis has to be on creating a stable, macroeconomic environment. Stable inflation, stable exchange rate, an environment within which people can come and invest and thereby increase production and further grow the economy; Improve and create jobs and reduce poverty.
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Anite said President Tinubu was planning to create 50 million jobs.

She stressed: “In Mr. President’s manifesto during his campaigns, he promised 50 million jobs and that’s our target. We will take it in phases; we are looking at different sectors of the economy that will contribute to this job creation chief among them is the creative industry and the digital economy, and then the agric sector, agro-processing zones, and mining, oil and gas. So we’re very confident that we will achieve this.”

https://thenationonlineng.net/tinubu-sets-3-year-economic-revival-50million-jobs-target/

stuffs2002:
Is president Tinubu a magician or what?

Even Enugu is getting the dividends of democracy

I know Peter Obi and his horde of bitter OBIDIENTS will not be happy with this news

Tabithatim:
WHO, UNICEF, community leaders hail Governor Mbah’s commitment to primary healthcare



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Hezmatosky210:
Give me any past governor from the south West to be compared with Peter Obi? Remove Lagos, other southwestern states are shììts

miyagi01:
This is presidential material who has the interest of the citizens at heart, not Peter Obi that is just going about doing emotional blackmail with a terrible antecedents

miyagi01:
This is presidential material who has the interest of the citizens at heart, not Peter Obi that is just going about doing emotional blackmail with a terrible antecedents

Jayhome24:
Seriously this Enugu governor, Soludo, and the Ebonyi govetnor if in future contest for presidency I won't hesitate to vote for them in as far they are not contesting under any party with obi presence. I will never and support anybody regardless of tribe or region tha contest in any party where obi name is, I will never.

Mbah we are seen you ding well we are proud of you you are not lije tha I d I o t that built only Hero brewery as his ony achievement. Ride on Mbah but pls remove Peter from your are cus I ow h8te that name Peter with passion cus of grigory bitch..

Where is that he--goa Historic my regular customer let's start from where we stopped yesterday.

historic:
Always taking to correction like a good and attentive pupil. At least you dun drop the bitch (though you used it to describe Obi which is still a minus for you ) which as I told you is used to belittle the female folks while trying to insult me and now use he goat that's an improvement but you still be olodo Sha with the gibberish you wrote up there cos I couldn't make head or tail from it... So the usual gibberish from you continues eh my dear iti boribo pal.

Jayhome24:
I called my dog and he answered

historic:
Your dog that is more brilliant than you ever can be... No be Juju be that. You no sing nursery rhyme today again or you dun tire?😁