Senator Abba Moro’s giant stride in the health sector

By Emmanuel Eche-Ofun John

Health, they say, is wealth. Comrade Abba Moro, the Senator representing Benue South Senatorial District, understands this and is taking the bull by the horn by adequately contributing his quota to the development of the health sector in the Senatorial District.

In his two and a half years in office, the comrade-Senator has completed two healthcare centres in his constituency; one in Okwungaga, in Okpokwu, and another in Apa-Agila, in Ado.

You will recall that the Senator, shortly after his assumption of office, procured and distributed medical equipment worth N50m to Agatu communities. And now two healthcare centres so quickly.

Without a visit to the health facilities, one would think they are the common health centres and clinics that we have in our villages, which only serve as first aids in an emergency situation.

The trip to the Senatorial District, to inspect the Senator’s projects, brought me face-to-face with health centres that are more like hospitals.

A healthcare center, or community health center, according to Wikipedia, is one of a network of clinics staffed by a group of general practitioners and nurses providing healthcare services to people in a certain area. Typical services covered in healthcare centres are family practice and dental care, but what Senator Moro has built in Benue South are healthcare centres that are expanded greatly to include internal medicine, pediatric, women’s care, family planning, pharmacy, optometry, laboratory testing, delivery and many more. One won’t be wrong to refer to them as ‘Hospitals’.

The healthcare centres, occupying large spaces of land, have gigantic and beautifully-designed edifices. Internally, the facilities have consulting rooms, sterilization rooms, laboratories, male/female wards, delivery rooms, nurses stations, injection rooms, record/card rooms, dressing/treatment rooms, pharmacies, and stores, with a toilet facility attached to almost all the rooms.

The facilities also have fully-equipped and functional ambulances, and installed solar energy systems that guarantee uninterrupted and steady power supply.

Also, each of the centres has a staff quarter, comprising of 3 one-bedroom flats for doctors and nurses, in addition to an arrangement for steady water supply.

Such an amazement. And we will still have at least one more healthcare centre built by the Senator before the end of his first tenure in 2023.

Senator Moro is leaving footprints in the sand of time, which will remain indelible for generations to come. His commitment to the course of Benue South is legendary. He’s so much in haste to impact as many lives as he can within the limited time and resources at his disposal.

Indeed, the Senator is working. If this is not effective, qualitative and quantitive representation then nothing is.

Emmanuel Eche-Ofun John is SA (New Media) to the Senator

02/12/2021