Gov Ugwuanyi Moves To Strengthen Healthcare Delivery In Enugu — Leadership Newspaper

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Enugu State governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, has taken a bold step towards strenghtening healthcare delivery in the state through his assent to the state’s Health Sector Reform bill passed into law by the State Assembly.

The state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr. Fintan Ekochin, who addressed newsmen after the meeting of the State Executive Council (Exco), said the new law will bring a lot of positive changes to the health sector in the state and will comprehensively address health-related issues for the people’s overall benefit.

Ekochin explained that the law has new components that were integrated for positive results, disclosing that the district health system introduced by the colonial government has been repackaged and replaced, accordingly.

He added that the district health boards were also affected by the new law, saying: “We are now going to key into the Ward Health System, which the World Health Organisation (WHO) had recommended and was long adopted by the federal…



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