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The people of Umuchima Amanso community in Abia State are facing poor healthcare services, a situation they said was caused by unfulfilled campaign promises.
The women and child bearing mothers of the autonomous community told Channels Television about their ordeal in accessing healthcare facilities, voicing their displeasure with the circumstance.
The residents also decried the lack of basic amenities after several years of unfilled promises made by previous administrations to commence intervention in some critical areas.
President General of Umuchima Amanso in Umuahia North Local Government Area, Obioma Okechukwu, lamented that they could only access other communities using canoe as means of transportation.
The traditional ruler of the community, Eze Iheanyihukwu Abel, expressed readiness to continue to give out the Umuikah village hall as a temporary health centre.
He explained that the situation would remain pending when the government would be willing to take over the hectares of land the community had earmarked and offered for the primary healthcare centre.
In reaction to this, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Gozie Ahukanna, said that the government was working assiduously to ensure that healthcare delivery was accessible at all levels and across the nooks and crannies of Abia State.
He added that despite what looked like a proliferation of primary healthcare that was not leaving up to its function, Dr. Ahukanna said that the government had made a step ahead to put up a working mechanism to bridge the gap by reducing the number from 729 through mapping across the political wards to 271.
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