“We want to call on the government and the good people of Rivers State that all we need in the state is peace. Meanwhile, the Rivers State chapter of the Association of Community Health Practitioners has called on the state government to urgently recruit at least 1,000 community health workers to address acute manpower shortages in public health facilities. “We are demanding that the governor employs at least one thousand community health workers to beef up the workforce.”Onuwa also appealed for the provision of operational vehicles to enable health workers carry out effective outreach, especially during immunisation and vaccination campaigns. “We constitute about 87 per cent of the workforce in the state health sector. By approving the extension of retirement age, the governor has solved one major problem for health workers,” she said.