The Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, paid unscheduled visits to two general
hospitals in Rivers State on Saturday and promised to rehabilitate them after
seeing the sorry state of the hospitals.
The
governor who ever since his assumption of office as governor has visited some
projects’ sites and facilities lamented the INTERNAL state of the hospitals.
At
the Bori General Hospital, the patients who were obviously elated to see the
governor, narrated the dearth of basic facilities to save lives-disclosing that
their patronage of the hospital is planked on lack of choice as they cannot
afford the MONEY to visit better clinics else where else they would have done
so.
Uncomfortable
with the state of the hospital the governor ORDERED the permanent secretary of
the ministry of health, Dr. Somieari Isaac Harry, and the chairman of the Rivers
State MANAGEMENT Board, Dr Okikere Iragunima to submit- within two weeks-a
proposal/budget that will give the. Hospital a facelift.
This,
the governor said, must include both equipment and the building. The visit of
the governor coincided with the delivery Of a baby boy named after him. The
parents of the baby were filled with joy when the governor stopped over to see
the baby.
Dr
Iragunima who also lamented the poor state of the hospital, disclosed that the
hospital receives about THREE thousand patients monthly even in it’s terrible
state as it serves five local government areas, namely: Khana, Gokana,
Tai,Andoni and Opobo/Nkoro. He ruled that the hospital which was built by the
colonial government has been ignored by governments in the past.
Straight
from the Ward, Governor Wike visited the official residential quarters of the
doctors and nurses. Not pleased with the state in which they are, he ordered
that a budget on a befitting quarters be submitted to him within two weeks.
His
words: “the doctors and the nurses do not need to live outside so that they can
attend to patients promptly “The quarters, he insists, must be fenced.
Wike
also visited the Emohua General. Moved to tears by the sight of the abandoned
hospital over grown with bushes , Gov Wike said in Emohua, the life threatening
buildings put up before independence and is now derelict must be demolished and
new ones built . Not a single patient was seen in that hospital as dangerous
reptiles and rodents inhabited the old and collapsing buildings. He further
DIRECTED that access road and security must be provided.
It
is pertinent to state that the roads leading to the hospitals are near
impassable.
Culled from www.pmnewsnigeria.com
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