MDGs: Uduaghan Appeals For Private Partnership TO ensure that Nigeria meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and beyond, the Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has challenged private organizations to collaborate with various government organs in the realization of the targets. Receiving the President of Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics of Nigeria (SOGON), Dr Fred Achem and members of the society in a courtesy call in Asaba on Wednesday, Dr Uduaghan noted that meeting the MDGs was not the challenge of government alone but that private organisations must play active roles in the efforts to reduce poverty in the country. According to him, “until we are able to deal with the challenges of pro-poor in this country, we cannot be comfortable because, a poor man can make you to be very uncomfortable until you attend to his or her needs.” Governor explained that his administration’s programmes were most times designed to benefit a greater number of those at the bottom rung of the ladder in the society. He commended the SOGOM for taking as its theme, ‘Human Resources Development in Improving Maternal and Child Health in Nigeria: Looking beyond MDGs’ at its 48th annual general meeting, observing that his administration was aware of the importance of developing human resources from the day of conception to childhood. “This issue of human capital development starts from the first day of pregnancy,” the Governor emphasized, adding that his administration’s free maternal health care and free health care for children aged zero to age five were borne out of that realization. Uduaghan said that some of the actions of youths who were involved insocietal ills could be linked to lack of adequate maternal andparental care and called for urgent steps in redressing the trend. Dr Achem had commended Governor Uduaghan for making Delta State a model in the country in the area of uplifting the standard of living of the people stating that lectures to be delivered at the conference would be based on how human capital development would affect thehealthcare industry.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 03:20:53 +0000