The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Primary Healthcare Board has urged humanitarian organisations to harmonise their projects plans with that of the government for effective service delivery.
Executive Secretary of the board, Ndaeyo Iwot, said this on Saturday at the Fund-Raising-Investiture of Rotarian Henry Iwu as the seventh president of the Rotary Club of Abuja.
According to Mr Iwot, health care is about a partnership, and in that partnership, humanitarian projects need to be in alignment with that of the government.
“The advice I am giving here is to tell partners that there is the need to harmonise their plans. They need to key into the government’s focus.
“You may not be aware that right now in the FCT, the health sector has a strategic government plan.
“We are in partnership with USAID, they support the FCT. We signed an MoU with a work plan that has been approved to be carried out in the next five years.
“So, if partners should key into this work plan, resources that they have could be pulled together. Government can achieve more and even they can achieve more too with the resources they have,” he said.
Mr Iwot said that partnership was the way to go to guarantee that citizens would be healthy and productive in the nation.
According to Ndaeyo, Rotary Clubs are first level players as they have been supporting communities, empowering people, improving the general wellbeing of the people and making people have better health and good life expectations.
“This induction of the seventh president of the Rotary Club of Abuja, Kubwa is important to us because Kubwa is in Bwari, which recorded a very high case fatality in the cholera outbreak that we just had.
“So Rotary club is doing a lot to help communities to come into active participation with their health activities.
The newly sworn-in president of the club said Rotary was a humanitarian service organisation and “mankind is her business, so service to humanity is her watchword.”
Mr Iwu said that rotary bridges the gap between government and the people, especially in the rural communities through the projects that they carry out.
He reeled out some of the projects the club would be executed during his tenure to include peace and conflict resolution, ending open defecation, construction of toilets and boreholes.
According to him, the club will also pay the school fees of 50 indigent students in the Kagini community, a suburb in Abuja to enable them to continue their education.
Mr Iwu encouraged Nigerians to join and support the club, adding that it was not a cult as was the belief of some Nigerians.
(NAN)
