UDUAGHAN FLAGS-OFF FREE MEDICARE FOR CHILDREN GOVERNOR EMMANUEL UDUAGHAN IN THE MIDST OF CHILDREN SHORTLY AFTER THE FLAG-OFF OF FREE MEDICAL CARE FOR CHILDREN BETWEEN 0- FIVE YEARS OLD IN DELTA STATE HELD AT THE GENERAL HOSPITAL, SAPELE MARKING THE 2010 CHILDREN’S DAY CELEBRATION. Another milestone in healthcare delivery in Delta State was reached today as Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan flagged-off free Medicare programme for children aged below five years. The epoch making ceremony was packaged as part of activities to mark this year’s Children’s Day celebrations in the state held at the Central Hospital, Sapele, headquarters of Sapele Local Government Area. In his address, Governor Uduaghan said free health service for the under five is not restricted to out patients but includes admission and surgery. The programme, he added became imperative because most parents cannot afford to pay hospital bills and thus take their kids to quarks or out rightly give up and allow the children to die. The Governor further said that the under five free healthcare service commences from the day of conception and stressed that “God has given us a responsibility as parents and as a responsibility as government to take care of these children.” Governor Uduaghan who recalled that his administration had earlier introduced free maternal healthcare, used the occasion to caution health workers not to derail the new scheme. He said: “Let me appeal to our health workers that this programme for our children should not be sabotaged. “If as a health worker you and you are carrying our illegalities against this particular programme, I might not be in a position to catch you. But God that sees everything will be seeing you,” he said. In his address, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Joseph Otumara noted that as the bedrock upon which the state and the country depends, it is incumbent to keep children in the best possible condition of health in order to guarantee a healthy and rewarding future for all. While saying that records from the hospitals show that children below the age of five years are vulnerable to a wide range of disease conditions, Dr. Otumara stated that the introduction of free under five Medicare programme was intended to reduce infant mortality in the state. On her part, the Commissioner for Women Affairs, Community and Social Development, Queen Victoria Ikenchuku commented on the annual Children’s Day celebration which she said was in compliance with the United Nations resolution that a day be set aside to focus and review societal commitment to the needs of children.    Recent Events WHEN CHIEF GODSWILL OBIELUM, NDOKWA NATION HOSTED AND ENDORSED GOVERNOR EMMANUEL UDUAGHAN FOR 2011, AT THE KWALE TOWNSHIP STADIUM, ON SATURDAY, JULY 3, 2010. IMAGES FROM THE VISIT OF HIS EXCELLENCY, DR. GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, PRESIDENT, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES OF NIGERIA FOR THE COMMISSIONING OF DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL, OGHARA AND HEADQUARTERS, NAVAL LOGISTICS COMMAND, OGHARA, D3 LAUNCH IN EUROPE: GOVERNOR EMMANUEL EWETA UDUAGHAN, GOVERNOR LED A DELEGATION OF OFFICIALS AND EMINENT DELTANS TO GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, TO LAUNCH THE EUROPEAN HUB OF THE DELTA DIASPORA DIRECT (D3) PROGRAMME ON MONDAY, APRIL 26, 2010. IMAGES FROM THE MEMORIAL LECTURE AND FOUNDATION LAYING OF MARYAM BABANGIDA WOMEN DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, ASABA, HELD ON SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 2010. ASK THE GOVERNOR

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