Bola Tinubu has been tasked by Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate for the general election of 2023, to give primary health delivery services in the nation first priority.
In a conversation with reporters on Thursday at the St. Charles Borromeo Specialist Hospital in Onitsha, Anambra State, Obi provided the guidance.
This declaration follows Obi’s N10 million donation to the College’s management, which facilitated the institution’s facility upgrades.
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The previous contender for president highlighted that a new Nigeria could only be realised by enhancing vital areas of the nation including health, education, and rescuing individuals from poverty.
In order to counterbalance the cost of any public office holder’s foreign treatment, the former governor of Anambra State further advised the president to forbid the federal government from paying medical bills out of its coffers.
In light of the college’s expansion, Obi praised the administration; as governor of Anambra State, he was present during the college’s foundation-laying ceremony in 2012.
Noting that “nurses are the closest medical personnel to any patient in the hospital since following the doctors’ diagnosis and the making of prescriptions, nurses are the ones who stay to provide the treatments,” he praised the nursing profession as being extremely important to health care.
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He said that the gift represented his yearly commitment to the college for 2023, which he was unable to do during the time because of the presidential campaigns.
The previous contender for the LP clarified that his sustained backing since resigning as governor was based on his conviction that citizens should not only encourage the development of vital national sectors while in office, but also consider such actions as a means of giving back to the society in which they have been favoured by God.
His Grace, Most Rev. Valerian Okeke, the Archbishop of the Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province, responded by thanking Obi for the gift and praising him for his unwavering support of the cause of a New Nigeria.
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