Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara says the state government is doing everything possible to revive the near comatose health facilities in the state.
Governor Fubara who spoke when he received a delegation of the leadership of the Nigerian Medical Association led by its National President, Dr Uche Ojinmah, at Government House in Port Harcourt on Friday noted that there cannot be any real development without quality health.
The Governor used the occasion to confirm the appointment of Prof. Chizindu Alikor as the substantive Chief Medical Director of Rivers State University Teaching Hospital maintained that the provision of quality healthcare service and development efforts needed to be properly integrated to achieve holistic development.
Workers and all citizens of the state he said need to be healthy if they must be productive and contribute their quota to advance governance insisting that any government that has the interest of its people at heart must pay adequate attention to the provision of quality healthcare.
Governor Fubara said that as an Administration that means well for the people and was committed to addressing the plethora of problems inherited in the health sector without making noise about it.
According to him, health facilities, particularly those that provide intermediary services were being rebuilt and strengthened while zonal hospitals would be revived with the provision of adequate and well- motivated personnel that would meet the needs of the sector.
In his speech, the National President of the Nigerian Medical Association Dr. Uche Ojinmah said he led the delegation to thank Governor Fubara for what he has done to better the lot of medical personnel in Rivers State which was not possible under the previous administration despite his persistent visits and appeals.