Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Peter Obi has advised leaders to pay more attention to health care delivery.
Obi spoke when he visited Bishop Shanahan Hospital in Nsukka, Enugu State, one of the hospitals he had chosen to celebrate Easter.
The former governor, who already visited 17 of the hospitals, said the visit was a way of identifying with the people.
Obi, who described the people’s loss of confidence in the country’s health institution as embarrassing, said leaders must address the situation or else people would travel abroad to treat malaria and cold.
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Explaining his persistent stress that local hospitals should be patonised, Obi said: “The other day, I was a bit indisposed, and I chose to visit Holy Rosary Hospital, Waterside, Onitsha, which is about one kilometre from my house.
‘’I was surprised at the professionalism with which they attend to patients as well as their equipment. I was overjoyed when I recall it was one of the hospitals we strategically partnered with in Anambra State when I was governor.”
The highlight of the visit was the presentation, after visits to the wards, of a N1 million to the hospital.
Hospital manager Rev. Greg Onah thanked Obi for the visit and for his promise to keep an eye in the affairs of the hospital.
He prayed that God would continue to bless Obi for using his wealth to add value to the society.
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