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Friday, October 15th, 2004 HOME | Previous Page Nnamani seeks joint effort in health sector By Ijeoma Alli Special Correspondent, Enugu   Enugu State Governor Chimaroke Nnamani has canvassed collaborative effort among stakeholders in the health sector towards the provision of primary health care services. He said this would help streamline their functions and check duplication. Nnamani, who was addressing officials of the World Bank in Enugu, said health care providers like the British government sponsored Partnership for Transforming Health System (PATHS), the Health Procurement Programme and the World Bank sponsored Health System Development Fund Project should reach a greater level of cooperation so as to achieve better and more rapid results. He said the United Nations Millennium Development goal designed to reduce poverty, maternal and infant mortality and improver information technology have helped his administration to revitalise and refocus its own development programmes. He said health and human services were vital to the achievement of remarkable success in the war against poverty, adding that his administration had already achieved much in that direction with the assistance of donor agencies and aid programmes. Nnamani said the areas where meaningful results have been achieved included the renovation and equipment of 24 cottage hospitals, solid waste management and rural development. The leader of the World Bank team, Dr Ann Okigbo Fisher, said they were in the state to inspect projects being executed under the Health System Fund co- sponsored by the bank. She praised the level of success so far recorded by the government in the execution of the programme, adding that the visit would afford the team the opportunity to identify area of need and determine how to improve on the situation. She noted that the state was among those that had shown consistency in remitting their counterpart funding to the World Bank programmes, saying this was responsible for the successes achieved.   Copyright� 2004. All Rights Reserved. Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.independentng.com e-mail: [email protected] Designed By Powered By DNet.

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