In an attempt to tackle the problem of health care system particularly the primary health care in the State, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has stated that his administration is building a specialist hospital for mother and child.
He said that to tackle the problem the healthcare faces, it was important to start from the grassroots level especially for the vulnerable in society.
Governor Ikpeazu disclosed that his target was to get the report of any mishap in the specialist hospital so it can be improved.
“I want to get to the point that if we lose a child, it should be known to the Governor. How it happened and what can be done to make sure that such doesn’t happen again.”
“We have the Abia telehealth which reaches out to the aged especially during this period of COVID-19 where they can no longer go to the hospital for their routine drugs so it was taken to them.”
In talking about the problem faced by hospitals in terms of no patronage from people, he said that general hospitals have demarketed itself.
“The primary health care and general hospitals cannot progress if the people do not take their patient there. And it’s sad to see the nonchalant attitude of these workers there.”
“I was coming from a function and had a little time, I stopped at a health care hospital in Isiukwuato. Do you know that I walked in from the gate to the entrance without seeing anybody? I went around the ward but no one was there. I went to the mortuary and that was where I saw somebody and the person was dead. So in the whole of that facility, no one was found. What if a farmer brings in his wife who had an accident on the farm to the hospital and finds no one there, what will they say? What will be their fate? Their attitude is outrageous.”
