The Abia-Glo Connect to Care campaign, a community health advocacy/social mobilization exercise aimed at boosting health care delivery of Abians through Tele-health initiative will soon be launched in the state.
Speaking with newsmen after a pre-launch meeting with the Abia State Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi Kalu, in umuahia, the Zonal Head Enterprise Business Globacom, Mr Macaulay Akoko, said they are finalizing strategy to reinforce access to medicare in the city centres and rural areas as well.
Mr Akoko, who disclosed that they came with the network improvement team to look at ways of improving network across the state so as to ensure accessible Tele- medicare in the urban and rural centres.
The Zonal Head Enterprise Business Globacom, who disclosed that Abia is the queue to the Tele-Health Initiative, said is first of its kind, adding that Abians would have unlimited access to medicare with just five hundred naira (#500) per month as brought by Globacom to support the state government.
Also speaking, the Technical Consultant, Abia Tele-Health Initiative Programme, Dr Omar Ubiame , said they have consolidated in the operational base of its Programme and currently building a network of all healthcare providers from local, primary and tertiary as well as all allied health care providers.
Dr. Ubiame, who attributed the success of the programme in the state to the political will, transparency and sincerity of purpose exhibited by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, noted that the governor has the interest of all Abians at heart.
In his contributions, the Head of Marketing Communications, South East ll Globacom, Mr Vincent Oparaeke, said that the launch aimed at sensitizing all average Abians as the potential beneficiaries on the how the Tele-Health works and it’s benefits.
Mr Oparaeke, however, said that they intend to embark on a thorough sensitization exercise by communicating Abians through radio and television spot, bill boards, printed materials, road shows among others.
