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Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has promised meaningful transformation in the health sector.
Fubara made the assertion at Ngo Town during the official inauguration of the Andoni section of the Ogoni-Andoni-Opobo Unity Road project, in Andoni Local Government Area on Saturday.
This was contained in a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Nelson Chukwudi, and sent to newsmen on Saturday evening.
Fubara said it was appalling that recent statistics had classified Rivers State as below the set benchmark in terms of enrollments and health facilities availability.
He, however, pledged that in the next six months, Rivers people should expect to see evidence of significant investment that his administration had made to change the narrative.
He said, “I was in Nigerian Governors’ Forum meeting on Wednesday, and we were given an update from the chart on medical position of all the states. It was in zones.
“You won’t believe that in that chart, everything that has to do with enrollment, even the level of facilities that is on the ground in that assessment, Rivers State was classified as below benchmark. It is a pity.
“It is not something that just happened in a day. It is not something that just happened within my time in government. No, no. It is a statistics collated over a period of time. So, it means when we tell you that our target is education, healthcare and agriculture, we didn’t make any mistake.
“We might have done other things, but those key areas have not been adequately attended to. And we promise our people in the next six months, there will be a total change in the health sector of Rivers State.”
