The project coordinator said the MDGs had recorded 75 per cent success in the area of healthcare as more than 250 primary health centres had been established in the state.
“We have provided hospital equipment to more than 120 health centres and supplied drugs to most of them.
“We have also provided more than 500 hands pump and boreholes; we have provided 150 motorised pumps with reticulated facilities up to points where people could easily access water,’’ he said.
Gai attributed the success so far recorded to the political will by the Federal Government and the state government, especially in regular payment of counterpart funds.
He, however, said security challenge had impeded the speed of the execution of some projects.
Mr Allwell Eneh, Communication Officer in Rivers MDGs office, said the state government had equipped 66 out of the 170 new primary health centres across the state to meet the goals.
He said the MDGs had also built classroom blocks for four fishermen communities and renovated over 150 room-hostel blocks at the state College of Health Sciences and Technology.
“The MDGs office is constructing a new College of Nursing Sciences at the former location of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital,’’ he said.
According to him, the government has provided water supply to some communities such as Suku and Kula in Akuku Toru Local Government Area of the state.
“This also includes the completion of 50, 000 gallons of water pumping stations with five kilometre reticulation in Ohim-Oyoro and Eberi-Obioha communities, among others,’’ he said.
But in Kaduna State, Malam Abdullahi Lere, the Technical Assistant on MDGs, said insufficient funds from the MDGs office had challenged the achievements so far recorded.
He said the state, nonetheless, recorded more than 40 per cent reduction in maternal mortality through free medical care for pregnant women and children under five.
He said tremendous improvement was recorded in health and education, while there was a tremendous reduction in poverty level.
Mr Steve Akpan, the Special Assistant on MDGs in Akwa Ibom, said by 2015, Akwa Ibom would have met six targets the goals.
He said the targets of the government were on eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, attainment of universal primary education, promotion of gender equality and women empowerment.
“Others are reduction of child mortality, improvement of maternal health and provision of water and basic sanitation,’’ he said.
Akpan said that some indigent persons had also benefited from Conditional Cash Transfer of the programme.
Mr Okezie Nwanjoku, the Special Adviser to Gov. Sullivan Chime of Enugu, said the government had achieved a lot in the area of education, health care delivery, water and sanitation sectors and purchasing of drugs for various health centres.
He said more than 50 health centres were constructed, noting that the dilapidated ones had been renovated in different local government areas.
He said 17 ambulances and different drugs were also distributed to the health centres for efficient and effective service delivery.
Nwanjoku said that mosquito nets and drugs were distributed to different hospitals and citizens to fight malaria and other diseases.
“As a way of scaling up MDGs programmes, we renovated many primary schools and constructed toilets in many primary schools in the state.
“In 2011, Aninri, Isiuzo and Igbo-Etiti local government areas benefited from the scheme and we spent N200 million in the construction.
“In 2012, four other communities of Nkanu East, Ezeagu, Uzo-Uwani and Oji River local government areas also benefited with a sum of N800 million.
“Presently, we have slated six local government areas of Enugu East, Awgu, Udi, Igboeze South, Nsukka and Nkanu West in the state, to benefit from the same projects, which will cost N1.2 billion,’’ he said.
In an interview with NAN, Alhaji Sani Talata-Mafara, the Special Adviser to the Governor on MDGs in Zamfara, said the state government had executed more than 5,000 MDGs projects across the 14 local government areas of the state.
He said hand-pumps and solar powered bore-holes were constructed while many residents of the state were provided with jobs and capital to start businesses.
He said out of the eight points of the MDGs, nothing was left out due to the government commitments to the MDGs.
He explained that, most of the projects executed were in the rural areas where they were most needed.
