The Delta government has inaugurated a?mobile?clinic and five intensive care ambulances to? boost healthcare delivery in the state.
Dr Broderick Bozimo, a?former Minister for Police Affairs, who inaugurated the facilities on Friday in Asaba, lauded the initiative and urged the people to utilise the facilities.
Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan who addressed newsmen after delivering a lecture at the Business Hallmark Public Policy Forum, said the facilities would be deployed to enhance rural health care delivery?in the state.
He said the mobile clinic was?equipped with?necessary facilities to treat and perform surgery?in emergency cases, especially in?rural areas where such facilities were not readily available.
Uduaghan said that with the facilities on ground, operators of the rural health scheme in the state would not need to refer patents to any centre to access medication.
“It is a mobile clinic with about 20 wards, two theatres with all the basic equipment.
“The good thing about it is that it can be set up within six hours in any community where the facility is taking to for use.
“Again it is good for disaster management as the affected persons can be treated on the spot before referring to the normal hospitals,’’ he said.
Uduaghan said the government had a maintenance agreement with the company that supplied the clinic to maintain it for about three years before handing it over to the government.
He promised that the government would complete health facility projects in the state, especially that of the Asaba Specialist Hospital.
Dr Joseph Otumara, the state's Commissioner for Health, said that?communities in the state would benefit from the mobile clinic.
“From the beginning of?next year, the rural healthcare programme will be a regular thing from January through December.
Otumara, who said the government budgeted N100 million for the rural healthcare scheme this year, expressed optimism that the amount would be reviewed upwards next year to accommodate more communities. (NAN)