The Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, Imo State council has called for a comprehensive overhaul of the health sector in the state.

 

The union called on the state government to, as a matter of urgency, immediately revive health institutions such the School of Nursing Owerri, School of Basic Midwifery, Aboh Mbaise, the state specialist hospital Umuguma and the College of Medicine of Imo State University.

 

The chairman of the council, Comrade Nzenwata Francis Iheanacho made the call at the 3rd Annual Health Week seminar of the Union held in Owerri which had the theme “Universal Health Coverage and the Development of Human Resources, issues and perspectives”.

 

Nzenwata, who took exception at what he described as the damaging and dangerous politics playing out at the College of Nursing and Health Sciences Amaigbo, in the Nwangele LGA noted that no state can achieve Universal health coverage with all the institutions that train and develop manpower “wobbling”. He called on the entire health workforce in the state to work as a team to deliver quality healthcare services to the people.

 

He however praised the state Governor-Owelle Rochas Okorocha for his commitment towards universal health coverage to the people noting that “this is evident in his ‘health at your door step programme’ which is aimed at delivering health care services to all and the building of 27 General hospitals in the LGAs meant to bring healthcare services closer to the people.