Soludo Is Transforming Anambra State Health Sector – Health Commissioner

Feelers from across the State indicate Governor Chukwuma Soludo has done well in various sectors of the state economy under his first one year in office coming up exactly tomorrow Friday seventeenth March, 2023.

The Anambra state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Afam Obidike thanked him for giving Ndi Anambra and other residents of the state a health system that is affordable and accessible.

Dr. Obidike explained that the Soludo administration has done things both in infrastructural development, human capacity development and service delivery that are verifiable and has equally provided a template for the Health Ministry to function optimally in years to come.

The Commissioner revealed that after they had completed gap analysis when the administration came on board, and noticed shortage of health
personnel, Governor Soludo employed over three hundred health experts to fill the gaps to ensure efficient service delivery.

Dr. Obidike noted that currently, the state government is upgrading three general hospitals namely, Umueri General Hospital, Enugwu-ukwu
General Hospital and Ekwulobia General Hospital for improved service delivery.

He maintained that they are currently screening and treating Anambra
women on cervical cancer and that their target is to screen and treat about twenty thousand Anambra women and commended the wife of the Governor, Mrs. Nonye Soludo for her support.

According to Dr. Obidike, a medical oxygen plant has been completed in
Onitsha General Hospital to serve the oxygen needs of the people of the area and euologized the governor for all the support his administration is giving the ministry to excel.

An indigene of Umueri, Mr. Emmanuel Agbata commended Governor Soludo for giving the hospital a facelift, and prayed God to bless him.