By Magnus Emuji
The need for stronger collaboration with stakeholders in the health sector and community leaders in Delta State to ensure that health care facilities are functional for the overall benefits of the people has been brought to the fore .
Delta State Programme Officer for a Civil Society Organization on Malaria Control, Immunization and Nutrition (ACOMIN), Juliet Obiajulu stated this in Asaba during their July monthly meeting which was attended by various partners and their community based organizations representatives in the local governments.
Obiajulu said that it was necessary to build the capacity of the CBOs working in 5 local government areas that they were intervening which included Oshimili South, Oshimili North, Uvwie, Udu and Warri South in order for them to be abreast with the needed approach to be able to identity and strategize on how best to solve issues in the course of carrying out their activities.
She stated that knowledge and information sharing was important for the realization of the objectives of the project and lauded the CBOs for the success recorded so far in the project, saying that communities were now aware of the project more than before.
Obiajulu explained that the initiative was aimed at ensuring that communities owned the primary health care centres in their areas, adding that in some of the PHCs that they were intervening, communities have taken it upon themselves to clear overgrown weeds around their health centres, repair damaged water pumping machine, as well purchase matrasses for the facilities.
She noted that the Community Lead Monitoring Team (CLMT) had been proactive to ensure that the goals of the project were achieved.
Also speaking, the State Tuberculosis Coordinator , Mr. Miracle Onyeukwu , represented by the community representative of KRUDI, Success Onyeukwu appreciated the State Programme Officer and other key players as well as CBOs for their efforts in ensuring the success of the project.
Onyeukwu also called for synergy among the various CBOs and urged them to work together as a team at all times.
Earlier, the Director in the Department of Social Mobilisation, Delta State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Natalie Obada Afebuamhe stated that the agency was committed to ensure that there was community health behavioral change in the state through health education.
In an interview with newsmen, the Executive Director of Riverine Health Initiative Engr. Honesty Omagbemi said that ACOMIN has always engaged them in their community based activities to record success in the PHCs that they are implementing at Okpanam just as he disclosed that their efforts is already yielding positive results.
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