By Ambrose Ologide
Patients particularly pregnant women and nursing mothers of Primary Health Centre, Alaka Quarters Effurun Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State have bitterly complained of their inability to access the the health centre owing to the flooded untarred road that led to the health centre.
Two pregnant women and a nursing mother were seen returning home from the Uti axis of the untared road that led to the health centre in the morning of Monday 17th July, 2023 .
They told our correspondent that they cannot trek through flooded distance of about two hundred metres to the health centre with their newborn babies as commercial tricycles ( keke) have equally avoided the area.
When confronted with the situation, a source in the health centre, also complained bitterly that the highly deplorable flood situation has adversely affected patronage to the health centre.
She affirmed that 9 women put to bed three days before the media chat and that the said nursing mothers did not go for their vaccines at as the time of filing this report.
Besides , she complained that staff often pull off their footwears when accessing the health centre.
The Executive Director of an NGO Partners For Hope, Nicholas Ugbengen who also spoke noted that some of the vaccines in the health centre have life span and that they will expire if they were not used at the right time.
He then appealed to the Delta State Government to urgently construct drainages in the area and that the suggested drainages should be linked to the major drainages at the Effurun / Sapele Road ” if this is done , the area will be flood free. ” he added
The Supervisory Councillor For Health Uvwie Local Government Council, Hon Peter Ojobara when contacted for his reaction, expressed sympathy with patients and staff of the health centre as he also noted that people, particularly the highest tradititioal chief in Uvwie Kingdom , High Chief Hope Akasa JP were also affected by the ugly situation.
He however expressed hope that the Delta State Government will do something to solve the problem in no distance time
It would be recalled that the highest tradititioal chief in Uvwie Kingdom, High Chief Hope Akasa (JP) has on several occasions appealed for the construction of drainage and the untared road in the area.
He had also bitterly complained that flood has in no small way affected the patronage of the health centre.
