By Harris Emanuel
Since 1999, successive administration in Akwa Ibom State has introduced new healthcare policies and ensured massive renovation of dilapidated infrastructures and building of new ones as well as provided modern equipment and employment of health personnel, as part of efforts to boost health care delivery in the state.
The Obong Victor Attah-led administration, in 1999, upgraded and expanded health institutions and also established three new secondary health facilities strategically located where none existed in the three senatorial districts of the state.
The hospitals were located at Ikpe Ikot Nkon in Ini; Amamong in Okobo; and Ukpom in Abak. This happened as general hospitals in Mbioto 2 in Etinan and Urueoffong/Oruko local government areas, which were hitherto left to rot, among others, were spruced up to bring health care delivery closer to the people.
Besides, the administration equally implemented several health programmes at the primary, secondary and…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
