Healthcare delivery: Minister vows to support Karu Residents

On Sep 15, 2023

The minister of health, Dr. Muhammad Pate, has reiterated his commitment and support, to deliver quality healthcare to Karu residents, in Karu Local Government Area (LGA) of Nasarawa State. The minister gave the pledge at a Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) Tour, to Karu primary health centre on Thursday, in company of the Chief Executive Officer of Gavi, David Marlow.

Pate said that the present administration under the leadership of President Bola Tinubu was committed to improving healthcare to Nigerians. He added that healthcare was a collaborative effort and as such requires everybody’s cooperation to stay healthy.

He admonished Karu residents, irrespective of tribe and state, that the duty of ensuring a healthy living was everyone’s business because disease does not know individual.

Also speaking, Marlow applauded the minister for the warmth welcome into Nigeria to see the good work that the organisation was doing in administering vaccines on children.

Gavi is an international organisation created in year 2000, to improve access to new and underused vaccines for children living in the world’s poorest countries.

Marlow however advised parents to be responsible, support their children by ensuring they stay healthy as they are the future of the country.

“Make them healthy as they need good health to grow and become something in life,” Marlow said.

He pleaded with the minister to support health workers with education and also provide conducive atmosphere to make their work easier.

The Chairman of Karu, James Thomas, thanked the minister and Marlow for seeing Karu as worthy of their unrelenting support. He also impored the minister to see into the creation of more health facilities, adding that the available ones are being overstretched.

Present at the event include Karu traditional rulers, Gavi Managing Director, Thabani Maphosa, NPHCDA top officials from the Federal and Nasarawa State, among others.

NAN/Wumi