Members of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) have vowed to resist any attempt by the federal government to privatise public hospitals in the country.
The union’s president, Biobelemoye Josiah, stated this while donating items worth N2million to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Durumi, Abuja. As part of fulfilling the promise they earlier made to give N100, 000 monthly, to the IDP camps for upkeep, conducting malaria and HIV tests, as well as providing treatment to the ill members in the camps.
While insisting that it is the responsibility of the government to provide affordable healthcare services to the people, the MHWUN President said: “What we are saying is that public health institutions are institutions of public good.
“These are institutions that are meant to provide healthcare for the down trodden, the poor and the vulnerable. But there is a conspiracy by capitalists to ensure that they take these health facilities from the reach of the common man in the guise of privatisation.
“We are not against a private man using his own money to build a health facility, equip it and keep it for the affluent, especially those who have looted our country and have made it big.
“They can establish these hospitals for them, but they should leave the public hospitals for the common man. Public Private Partnership (PPP) has failed in the health sector worldwide. There is no PPP that can make malaria treatment cheaper.
“Go to all the hospitals where PPP has been introduced in Nigeria, it has taken healthcare away from reach of the poor and the vulnerable.”
He reiterated that plan is a threat to the survival of Nigerians.
BY: PATIENCE IVIE IHEJIRIKA
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