Gov Rotimi Amaechi tackles eye ailments with health mission

Rivers State governor and Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has stepped up his administration’s health care delivery to the people of the state as he brought into the state, United States-based health mission of experts to treat people with glaucoma and cataract eye problems and render other sundry medical services.
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Sampson Parker, told reporters at the Braithwaite Memorial Hospital, Port Harcourt, yesterday, that the US-based health mission, Hospitals for Humanity, was in the state as part of Governor Amaechi’s specialist manpower development initiative instituted as a programme in the state Ministry of Health to enhance healthcare delivery in the state.

He said that the Amaechi administration, through the programme, brought in medical experts from all over the world to work with Rivers State Government medical personnel to deliver quality healthcare in the state.
According to him, the foreign medical experts would provide quality medical care, particularly for glaucoma and cataract patients who suffer from eye problems.
He also said that the Amaechi administration recently procured over N1 billion HIV/AIDS drugs for HIV patients in the state.
In the same vein, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Amaechi, Mr. David Iyofor, noted that the current health mission in the state further demonstrates the governor’s passion for free and quality healthcare delivery to the people of the state.
Parker said: “Its part of Amaechi’s administration’s goal to improve manpower and that is why when the governor came on board, there is this programme we instituted in the Ministry of Health called the specialist manpower development.

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