Health is wealth and the administration of Governor Udom Emmanuel fervently believes in this epigram. This belief has informed the massive turn around that the State has witnessed in the last 4 years.
The Akwa Ibom State Primary Healthcare Development Agency is charged with the responsibility of ensuring adequate primary health care services in the State. Working with development partners, we make basic health services available, ensuring communities have access to health facilities, services and basic health insurance. Our goal is to make basic health services people-oriented and delivered according to established quality standards and protocols.
To ensure that the general populace in Akwa Ibom State have
access to affordable and equitable Primary Healthcare Services with the
support of all stakeholders through a system that delivers integrated
quality services.
To promote and implement sustainable, high quality Primary
Healthcare Services in Akwa Ibom State. To support Primary Healthcare
delivery through partnership, collaboration, resource mobilization,
development of community-based systems and functional Primary
Healthcare infrastructure in Akwa Ibom State.
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Akwa Ibom State branch commends the Speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly (AKHA), Rt. (Hon) Barr Onofiok Akpan Luke for Sponsoring the Bill for the establishment of the Akwa Ibom State Primary
In line with the state government’s commitment to strengthening healthcare delivery system in the state, the Speaker of the Akwa Ibom state House of Assembly, Onofiok Luke, has said that the state legislature is soon to pass into law the
Akwa Ibom government says it is working on a draft bill for the establishment of Primary Healthcare Management Board to boost healthcare delivery in rural areas of the state. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Dominic Ukpong, disclosed this in