Officer In charge of Maternity, Child Healthcare Centre Amawbia calls for patronage of centre

Wed, Aug 8, 2018 | By publisher


Health

CLAIRE Nwankwu, the officer In- Charge , OIC, of Maternity and Child Healthcare (MCH), Amawbia Ward III, has called for patronage of the centre by residents of the area.

Nwankwu made the call during advocacy visit to women of the host community at their meeting venue at Ngene Village, Amawbia, Awka South LGA.

She noted that the women spend `fortunes’ in private hospitals and yet ignorant of what they could gain at the health centre at reduced rate.

The OIC urged mothers to support her by encouraging their daughters’ in-law still within the child-bearing age to access the facilities so that she could succeed in her tasks.

“I want you people to give me the maximum cooperation to be able to transform the place.’’

Chinwe Lawrence-Uchenna of the Save One Million Souls, SOML, and a registered nurse noted the importance of sleeping under Insecticidal Treated Mosquito Nets, ITMN, to avoid contact with mosquitoes that cause malaria.

She educated the women on use of the nets, emphasising that pregnant, nursing mothers and little children must sleep under such nets so as to be free from malaria.

Pius Okafor, the Ward Distributors Committee, WDC, chairman, commended the officer in charge, for her doggedness to give the centre a face-lift.

Okafor, an indigene of the host community said that his duty was to enlighten residents on the need to access the MCH Centre, in a bid to ensure that children would be immunised and to feed them back especially where they were in lack.

Virginia Ogbonna, the president of Ngene women, the host village thanked the OIC for her efforts toward uplifting the centre.

Ogbonna noted that no officer from the centre had ever visited the women and promised to give her the support needed to move the centre forward.

“I thank you for the visit without which many will not know of other packages you run outside immunisation,’’ she said.

The secretary, Ward Distributors Committee was among the delegation that visited, while distribution of insecticidal nets to pregnant and nursing mothers featured at the event.

– Aug. 8, 2018 @ 18:45 GMT |

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