By Sunday Nwakanma
Umuahia
Abia state government at the weekend launched its Health Fair with reassurance to its citizenry of its continued commitment towards providing quality healthcare service delivery to them.
The wife of the governor, Mrs. Mercy Odochi Orji, handed down this assurance at the launching of the Health Fair in Bende local government, stating that the commitment accounts for the huge government investment in the health sector aimed at enhancing peopled access to quality healthcare services.
Mrs. Orji stated that it was in furtherance of this objective that necessitated the building of the specialist hospitals in Aba and Umuahia, the dialysis centre in Umuahia, Chest, Ear, and Eye centres also in Umuahia, 100 bed hospitals in nine local government areas and over 250 primary health care centres in various ward of the state by her husband, Theodore Orji.
She commended the state governor for doing so much in the health sector, enhancing the quality of health care service delivery and in ensuring that Abians stay healthy.
On the health fair, the wife of the governor said it was aimed at educating and sensitizing the people particularly the aged about their health and benefits of maintaining healthy living and counselled the people on the need to go for routine medical checkups, good dietary and regular exercise for physical fitness and longer life.
The Abia First Lady equally advised them to maintain clean environment, regular visit to health centres and advised the aged to control their cholesterol and sugar levels by eating more of vegetables and fruits adding that the fair was part of the health packages of Governor T.A. Orji targeted at reaching Abians in the rural areas and taking the state to higher level of development.
Earlier in her address, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Okechukwu Ogah, said that the health fair was a health awareness campaign aimed at explaining/promoting health information to the people due to recent insurgency of non-communicable diseases unlike in the past.
