The Bayelsa Deputy Governor, Rear Adm. Gboribiogha
John-Jonal (rtd) has described Bayelsa Primary Healthcare Board as one of the
best in Nigeria, in terms of healthcare delivery.....
John-Jonal made the remark
during the inauguration of the healthcare board, in Bayelsa Secretariat on
Friday in Yenagoa. According to him, the state in this period needed a
sustainable development to put more values in the medical field.
The deputy
governor urged pregnant women to utilise or patronize the healthcare facility
for safe delivery. In her remarks, the Chairman of the Bayelsa Healthcare
Delivery Board, Mrs Victoria Denenu, commended the state government for
facilities put in place and encouraged it to do more.
She said: “The board has
enough facility that is required by the National Primary Healthcare Board. The
board has been able to bring down to zero level the maternal mortality rate.
“The board has set up some departments, like planning, research, monitoring and
evaluation, department of disease control and immunization department of
communicable diseases and department of finance and account”.
The Chairman,
said the board had carried out sensitization campaigns, to enlighten pregnant
women on the need to go for regular antenatal. She added that the board had all
the statistics of all pregnant women in the eight Local Government Areas of the
state to ensure safe delivery.
Denenu said the score card from the National
Agency for Primary Healthcare was from five to 45 per cent now. Newsmen report
that the board was inaugurated on March 1 by Gov. Seriake Dickson.
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