Abia’s Health Investments Yielding Results – Commissioner

Abia State government’s allocation of 15 percent of its annual budget to the health sector has began to yield the expected results, according to the government.

The commissioner for Information, Okey Kanu stated this while briefing the media on the outcome of this week’s state executive council meeting chaired by the governor, Alex Otti

Kanu said the results include emerging the South East champion, and being among the top six nationwide in the 2025 Primary Healthcare (PHC) Leadership Challenge.

“This is a peer-review programme by the state governors to judge themselves about how they are performing in their states with regards to the PHCs in the health sector.

“The prize money won by the state in this regard is $500,000, which, if you want to convert it to the Nigerian currency, it comes to about N750 million” the commissioner stated. .

He advised residents of the state to observe good hygiene practices, avoid patronising medical quacks, fake drugs vendors, medical commodities, and unauthorised medical outreaches.

Contributing, his Health ministry counterpart, Enoch Uche, said the award validates the administration’s reforms in driving the sector, adding that the ministry was poised to do more.

‎”This award” the commissioner further noted, “is predicated on indicators, about 13 of them, and obviously the state led nationally in two of those 13 indicators.”

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