Revive Moribund Health Facilities-NASU to Fed. Ministry of Health
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- On 25/09/2023
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The Minister of Health has been advised to ensure the renovation and rehabilitation of obsolete and moribund health facilities in government-owned hospitals across the country.
This advice was given by a member of the National Executive Council(NEC) of the Non-Academic Staff Union and Associated Institutions(NASU), who doubles as the branch chairman of the union at the University College Hospital(UCH), Ibadan, Nigeria, Comrade Kehinde Abiona.
''The Minister of Health needs to look inwards and ensure that the moribund facilities that are the health sector are revived. Since the President Olusegun Obasanjo administration carried out the only major facility upgrade in 2005, nothing has been done by successive administrations. It is almost about two decades since the major overhaul has been done.''
Comrade Abiona also called on the Minister to ignore the agitation for the privatization of government-owned hospitals saying, ''such agitation will not allow him to end up well.''
The NASU chairman maintained that the Minister should remain neutral in the affairs of the health sector workers, adding, ''he should not be a Minister of Medical Doctors, but the Minister of all.''
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Federal Government of Nigeria Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions University College Hospital Ibadan Oyo state
