The Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Pate has called for more collaboration between government and private sector in the development of the health sector.
The Minister made the call during an event to mark the anniversary of the inauguration of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital permanent site at Nnewi/Oraifite.
Professor Pate while re-assuring the commitment of President Bola Tinubu towards providing Nigerians with qualitative healthcare services encouraged citizens and private organizations to always contribute to the needed transformation in the country’s health sector.
The Minister encouraged health workers at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital and other health facilities, to be more dedicated to duty and to ensure quality healthcare delivery to the people, and urged the state government to pay attention to regulating the activities of the health workers to fish-out quacks and others who may be taking advantage of patients of low social status in the system.
He commended Governor Chukwuma Soludo and wealthy individuals in the state for various interventions in the health sector, saying that such gestures should be emulated by other governors and individuals across the country, for improved healthcare services.
In a remark, Governor Chukwuma Soludo represented by his Deputy, Dr Onyekachukwu Ibezim while maintaining that provision of quality healthcare services for the people remains top in the agenda of his administration, intimated the minister with various achievements of the government in the health sector, including employment of about three thousand health workers, upgrading of General and Primary Health Centres across the state, among others.
The Governor extolled the federal government for its interventions in the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital and appealed for more of such a gesture in the hospital and other sectors of the state economy.
Earlier, the Chief Medical Director of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Professor Joseph Ugboaja appreciated the federal government for coming to the aid of the hospital and helping the management towards the actualization of its dreams of making the teaching hospital one of the third best in the country, calling on the federal government to also address some of the pressing needs of the hospital, including more infrastructures and employment of more health workers.
A one-time Senior Special Assistant to the Governor of Anambra State on Petroleum, Mr Peter Nwosu who donated a vehicle to the hospital during the event, maintained that provision of good healthcare services is not the responsibility of the government alone, and commended Governor Soludo his good work in health and other sectors.
The event featured award presentation, inauguration of structures named after some illustrious individuals of the state who in one way or the other contributed to the actualization of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital permanent site dream, including Sir Emeka Offor, Traditional Ruler of Nnewi, Igwe Kenneth Orizu the third, Chief Cletus Ibeto, among others.
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