mo State governor, Rochas Okorocha says the present changes being experienced in the Imo Health sector is revolutionary. The governor stated this while addressing members of the Nigerian
Medical association (NMA) who called on him at the Government House, Owerri.
According to Okorocha , the health facilities he met on ground at the inception of his administration were in a sorry state, stating that the hospitals could better be described as shanties and piggeries.
The Abysmal performance of our hospitals resulted to poor patronage by Imolites as most of these hospitals could no more justify the huge amount the government spends on them,†the governor explained.
Okorocha hinted that his administration was doing everything within its power to change the situation, stressing that 27 General Hospitals are being built in all the 27 local government areas of Imo state, which when completed would be fully equipped with modern medical equipment to avail the people quality health care services.
He said that government has adopted a public private partnership by concession of some hospitals with most of them already doing well and therefore appealed to NMA to partner with him in the new health programme known as health-at-your-door-step.
Earlier in his address, the National President of the Association, Dr. Osaghe Onabuleli, informed the governor that they were in the state to offer free medical treatment to Imolites which he said commenced at Mbaise and will move to Orlu the next day. He said that the association was ready to partner with the governor in his drive to revolutionalize health care in the state.
Onabuleli appealed to the government to look into the case of 8 doctors sacked as a result of the conflict between Imo state Hospitals Management and staff, with the aim to reabsorbing them and requested for the increase of subvention to hospitals and employ more hands to improve the manpower need of the hospitals.
The NMA boss thanked the governor for donating a vehicle to the association and for appointing four of their members into his cabinet, and the payment of the consolidated salary structure.