The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Anambra Medical Oxygen Production Plant, Mrs Nwamaka Arinze says that she will do everything humanly possible to ensure that Ndi Anambra benefit maximally from the plant.

 

Mrs. Arinze gave this assurance when members of the Anambra State House of Assembly Committee on Health paid her a familiarization visit in her office at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Amaku, Awka.

LMrs Arinze who revealed that she was one of the people that conceptualized the idea of building the plant during the immediate past administration in the state, said that she will do everything possible to ensure that Ndi Anambra benefit from the plant.

Mrs. Arinze, who said that the federal government has set up a national policy to ensure that Nigeria achieves sustainable development goals of which oxygen plant is a critical component of, thanked Governor Chukwuma Soludo for giving her the opportunity to serve.

The MD appealed to the members of the House of Assembly to make laws that will make hospitals in Anambra to always have enough oxygen in their hospitals in order to end occurrences of avoidable deaths in the state and disclosed that the plant is now in full operation to serve Ndi Anambra better.

 

Earlier, the Chairman of the Committee, Dr. Cater Umeoduagwu said that the familiarization visit was important for them to interface with the new MD, and expressed optimism that Mrs. Arinze will deliver because of her passion for the job.

Honourable Umeoduagwu however regretted that the former Managing Director of the plant has refused to leave office for Mrs Arinze to work seamlessly and called on Governor Soludo to immediately call the former MD to order.

 

A member of the Committee and member representing Njikoka one Constituency, Barrister Timothy Ifedioramma also assured that the House will support Mrs Arinze to succeed and expressed dissatisfaction about factors depriving the new MD of the plant to assume office fully, which he said made the Committee members to be stranded when they arrived the facility.

While Hon. Onyebuchi Offor of Ekwusigo constituency who is also a member of the team, said that Mrs Arinze has all it takes to deliver and described the action of the past MD of the plant as condemnable.