Delivery Pack, N500 Stipend Targeted Only At Poor Pregnant Women — Ikpeazu [MUST WATCH]

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State says women who give birth in government health facilities in the state will get a delivery pack and N500 stipend.

According to him, this is only targeted at the poor and vulnerable women in the state.

The move he further says became important since access to quality healthcare is not cheap,

“Abia State has keyed into the basic health insurance for pregnant women. If you put to bed in any of our primary healthcare centres, you get N500,” the governor told Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily monitored by ABN TV on Wednesday.

“Delivery is free; they give you a delivery pack and they give N500 which is running for the vulnerable members of the society.”

The governor noted that the delivery pack contains items needed to take care of newborn babies.

“But if you want a certain level of medicare, you should be able to pay,” Ikpeazu noted, adding: “Are you asking a poor woman what she will do with N500? Some people don’t have it.”

While the money may be seen as little, the governor maintained that “at least it will pay their way back home.”

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