Abia Assembly Urges Rehabilitation Centre For Drug Addicts, Others

Abia State House of Assembly has called for the establishment of a rehabilitation centre for drug addicts, victims of bad parenting and the less privileged in Aba by the government.

This was announced by the speaker, Emmanuel Emeruwa during plenary who added that this was aimed at providing succour, new lease of life and to make such people productive.

Emeruwa also announced that the 8th Assembly had urged the state’s health insurance agency to live up to its responsibilities following complaints against it.

“The House has as well mandated the joint committee on finance and health to investigate the complaints and the challenges facing the agency and report back,” the speaker said.

He further announced the constitution of 25 standing committees of the assembly, their chairmen and secretaries, and appealed to the members to work hard to ensure the success of the house.

The resolutions followed motions on matters of urgent public importance by members representing Aba Central and Isiala Ngwa South, Uchenna Akachukwu and Roland Dennise respectively.

Meanwhile, the government has commenced the rehabilitation of health facilities at Amachara, Umuahia; Cottage Hospital, Abai Aba; and Umunnato General Hospital in Bende local government.

The commissioner for Health, Ngozi Okoronkwo stated this while meeting with the staff in the state capital, Umuahia, noting that the administration had declared a state of emergency on the health sector.