By Muhammad Amaan
Members of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) of the Health Promotion Conference has paid an advocacy visit to the National Assembly to meet the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Senator Ipalibo Harry Banigo.
The visit was led by the Chairman of the LOC, Dr Ejike Oji, as part of the preparation for the forthcoming Health Promotion Conference, which she will serve as Special Guest of Honour.
Senator Banigo had earlier accepted to take up the roles through phone conversation with Mrs Nma Ogbonna, Co-Chair and Head of Health Promotion Division, Family Health Department, at the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.
During the visit, Senator Banigo accepted all the roles assigned to her, and shared information on the recent project on the National Health Insurance to all Nigerian communities she is piloting in the South South sub-region in collaboration with Nigerian Government, National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) and other partners.
Dr Oji led the discussions on the reasons behind the visit of the LOC to the National Assembly.
The legislators thanked the LOC members for the visit and the entire development partners representative at the meeting, and the Federal Ministry of Health.
“We commended the LOC chair and the principal officers who in his humility, deemed it fit to remember the masses and to declare a Health Promotion Day in Nigeria, the first in Africa and to the global community to be learned from experiences.”
They also promised and affirmed strongly to grace the conference slated for October 29.
The meeting was attended by the Chairman of the House Committee on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Control, Amobi Ogah, Chairman of the House Committee on Speciality Healthcare, House of Representative, Alex Egbona, PhD and Senator Binta Masi Garba, member of the 8thg Assembly from Adamawa State.
