“I am proud to be a Nigerian seeing how fellow Nigerians are diligently working to provide care for the sick and less privileged gives me a lot of joy and hope. I wish this kind of Primary
HealthCare Centre I have seen today in Dutse can be replicated throughout Nigeria”.
Aisha Buhari, spoke through Mrs. Dolapo Osinbajo, wife of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo today when the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello led her and the Wife of visiting German President, Danielle Schadt on a facility tour of the Primary HealthCare Centre in Dutse-Makaranta, a suburb of Abuja city.
The President’s wife described Nigeria as a family-focused family country where children and mothers are at the centre even as she commended the FCT Administration for establishing such a befitting healthcare centre for the rural dwellers.
She asked state governments across the country to take step towards replicating such facilities in their various localities to improve the health standard of the people.
Also speaking, the Wife of the German President, Danielle Schadt confessed that she has personal attachment to healthcare facilities, particularly for children and women.
Mrs. Schadt said that she is proud of Nigeria for standing up firm and eradicating polio from the country.
She asserted: “the health of the children and mothers remain the future of any country.”
According to her, the Primary Healthcare facility is one of the bases of building up a strong society and therefore encouraged the government to continue in this direction.
Welcoming guests, the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello who was represented at the occasion by the FCT Permanent Secretary, Dr. Babatope Ajakaiye, said that the FCT Administration has done a lot for the health and well being of the children and mothers especially in its school feeding programme.
The Minister announced that FCT Administration would soon commence drastic work on all Primary Healthcare Centres across the Territory, emphasizing that healthcare provision remains the focus of his Administration.
He assured that the FCT Administration would do more to improve the quality of healthcare of children and mothers and that it had over 215 Primary Health Care facilities across the Territory.
Muhammad Bello used the occasion to call on the traditional rulers, community and religious leaders to continue to sensitize their wards to come out en-masse and take advantage of the Primary HealthCare facilities provided by the FCT Administration in their localities. [myad]
