The 100-bed Mother and Child Centre situated in Ugwunabo, Abia state, was built by the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals .Otti promised to judiciously use the facility as the state is planning to establish a medical village that will put an end to people travelling out for medical issues.
“I would like to most sincerely thank Governor Otti for his unwavering commitment to the socio-economic transformation of Abia state and our collective desire to achieve the SDGs in Nigeria,” she said.According to her, the SDGs are a universal call to action to end poverty, safeguard the planet and ensure all people enjoy peace and prosperity by the year 2030.
“They must be carefully integrated into our medium and long-term national and sub-national development policies and plans. It is in recognition of this that we are supporting the 36 states and the FCT on SDG-Based Development Planning,” she said. “They include among others – two operating theatres, recovery rooms, private and general wards, scanning room, consultation rooms and laboratory. Others include ultra-scan machine, vacuum extractor delivery set and an emergency cart with full compliments. The MCC is directly linked to the achievement of SDG-3 on ‘Quality Health and Well-being for all’, as well as other cross-cutting SDGs,” she said.