Wike Lauds OSSAP-SDGs Over 100 Bed Mother & Child Hospital In Rivers

Rivers State governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has showered encomiums on the senior special assistant to  President Muhammadu Buhari on Sustainable Development Goals, Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire for building 100-Bed  Mother and Child Hospital in Okrika area of Rivers State.

The hospital is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities, which include operating theatres, labour rooms, recovery rooms, private and general wards, scanning room, consultation rooms and laboratory. Other facilities are ultra-scan machine, vacuum extractor delivery set and an emergency cart with full complements.

LEADERSHIP reports that this is one of the over 25 advanced medical facilities designed and equipped to help reduce child and maternal mortality across the country by the OSSAP-SDGs.

While commissioning the MCC, Governor Wike commended the office of the SSA to the President on SDGs (OSSAP-SDGs)  for the quality of work on the facility,  as well as the state of the art equipment. The governor also lauded the member representing Okrika/Ogu-Bolo federal constituency, Hon. Bright Tamuno Gogo, for facilitating the delivery of the project.

Wike who was further impressed by what he saw at the facility, urged OSSAP-SDGs to deliver similar health facilities across the three senatorial districts of the state.

He said, “This facility is for the benefit of the people of Okrika in particular, and Rivers people in general. The Mother and Child Hospital will be very important in taking care of our children and women, as well as reducing mortality rate. “

The governor directed the commissioner for health to liaise with the SDGs office to see how they can deploy manpower to take over the running of the place so that women and children will start benefiting from its services.

In her remarks, Princess Orelope-Adefulire explained that the facility is to among other benefits, grant access to good healthcare services and attainment of general wellbeing for the targets , especially as it relates to infants, neo-natal and maternal care.

She said the project is a strategic intervention directly linked to the achievement of SDG-3 on ‘Quality Health and Well-being for all’ as well as other cross-cutting SDGs.

Orelope-Adefulire , added that the  intervention was deemed necessary to stop the primary and secondary effects of COVID-19 pandemic from reversing decades of human development gained through the SDGs.

She commended President Muhammadu Buhari for providing the needed resources for the delivery of key interventions to governments at subnational levels to fast-track the achievement of SDGs.