By GRACE AUDU (Health Correspondent) –
The Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Benue State branch, Dr Ushakuma Anenga, has commended Governor Hyacinth Alia’s approval of the health facilities electrification project, a United States African Development Foundation (USADF) project awarded to Ave Health Sense.
Dr Anenga, who was speaking at a Stakeholders Meeting held at the conference hall of Calvaire Specialist Hospital in Makurdi, commended Alia’s great works, stressing that the governor’s developmental strides are limitless, as they cut across everyone and all works of life.
The Chairman was represented at the event by the Public Relations Officer of the NMA, Benue state chapter, Dr Mark Ogbodo.
Dr Mark Ogbodo (right) with Dr Kene
Dr Anenga also extended his heartfelt appreciation to the Benue State Commissioner of Health and Human Services, Dr Yanmar Ortese, for his unwavering support to the growth of excellent health-care delivery and all levels of the health system in the state.
While thanking the CEO of Ave Health Sense, Dr Terfa Kene, for the initiative and for considering Benue private hospitals as beneficiaries, Dr Anenga pledged his readiness to always support and ensure that the project works effectively.
Delivering his lectures on the project, Dr Terfa Kene explained that Ave Health Sense limited was a public health social enterprise organisation for quality public health research and sustainable public health program implementation.
Dr Terfa Kene making a presentation during the stakeholders meeting in Makurdi
He announced that that the project will offer solar energy to private hospitals in peri-urban locations on a lease to own payment plan to enhance the quality of health care services in private hospitals in Nigeria.
According to Dr. Kene, the purpose of the project was to improve the health care services offered and the overall well-being of citizens in peri-urban areas of Benue, Kaduna, Niger, Kogi States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
While thanking Dr. Anenga and the NMA in general, for their relentless support of the project so far, Dr Kene encouraged the Benue chapter of the Association to intensify efforts in building more beneficial projects for private hospitals, which will in turn add more feathers to their caps.
He equally thanked the Governor of Benue State, the Commissioner of Health and Human Services, as well as the Director of Clinical Services, Dr Terver Tule, for their unwavering support and commitment to the project.
The event was well graced by members of the NMA Benue and the Association of Nigerian Private Medical Practitioners, Benue State chapter.
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