By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu
In a bid to ensure that all residents of Idemili North celebrate the yuletide with a clean bill of health without reservations or regret, the Council on Tuesday, 10 December launched Special Health Emergency Response Team.
Inaugurating the Special team at the council’s headquarters, Ogidi, the Mayor of Idemili North, Hon. Stanley Nkwoka, charged the team led by the Supervisor for Health INLGA, Hon. Dr. Nkem Okeke, to go all out and make the Christmas and New Year celebrations enjoyable and memorable for the residents of the most populous and densely populated council area of Anambra State.
The Mayor applauded the Supervisor and his team for initiating the process and for their readiness to render humanitarian services to Idemili North, assuring them that the Council would make available all necessary logistics to ensure that they carried out their duties effectively and efficiently.
‘I am very much conversant with healthcare delivery. I am a Microbiologist by training. The importance of administration of first aid to accident victims cannot be overstated. How a victim is managed and carried from the scene of the accident goes a long way to determining the person’s survival. I have heard your requests; we’ll look into all of them. I can assure you all that it will be granted,’ he concluded.
Appreciating the Mayor and the Deputy Mayor, Hon. Lady Phina Onwuachu, and the Supervisor for Health INLGA, Hon. Dr Okeke, said they would be everywhere at every point in time to administer first aid and ensure that casualties were reduced to the barest minimum, even as he announced that toll-free numbers would be made available to all residents of Idemili North.
‘We want to thank specifically the Chairman and the Deputy Mayor for their thoughtfulness and guidance. We will ensure that we carry out this assignment to the best of our abilities. We will not disappoint Ndi Idemili North. I think this is the first time this type of Special Emergency Health Response Team is being launched at the Local Government level.
We are glad that Idemili North under Hon. Stanley Nkwoka’s watch is always leading in everything good and noble. We will continue to complement the Chairman’s efforts towards making the Council the best among equals,’ he said.
Corroborating the Supervisor’s stance, the Health Committee Chairman, Nze Azubuike Anowi, said they would work assiduously towards achieving the set objectives.
