The  Imo State House of Assembly on Wednesday told Governor Emeka Ihedioha to declare a state of emergency in the state’s health sector. The Deputy Speaker, Okey Onyekanma, who moved the motion  described   the conditions  of the general hospitals  as  ‘horrible’.

 

According to him, the hospitals lack enough workers  and medical equipment. Onyekanma  said, “Our general hospitals are dilapidated and lack enough staff and medical equipment to function. They are now semi-morgues. There is no electricity; no enough beds at all.” He added, “Our people will be happy with us if we support this motion urging the governor to declare a state of emergency in  the  general hospitals (health sector).”

 

The representative of Obowo Constituency, Kennedy Ibe, said  the Rochas Okorocha administration  failed the people of the state in the area of health care. He said  the health sector  would have improved if the immediate past government had built three general hospitals instead of the uncompleted 27 general hospitals. The Speaker, Chiji Collins, who presided over the plenary, instructed  the clerk to write to  the governor on behalf of House about the need to declare a state of emergency in the health sector.