Wednesday, February 25, 2015
UN-HEALTHY RIVALRY: WHAT APC AND PDP ARE NOT TELLING NIGERIANS.
If the
general election had been held on February 14th 2015 Nigerians would
have known who their next President is, but the power that be coupled with some
administrative laxity on the part of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
decided to shift the date till March 28th 2015. The power-play and
propaganda witnessed during the campaign period is enough to throw the country
into confusion but majority of Nigerian populace has grown thick skin to the unpleasant
antecedents of the political class. In this article, my major concern is not to
juxtapose the strength of the two major political parties but to bring to the
fore one of the key sector of the economy ignored by the political gladiators
in their campaign and that key factor is not other than HEALTH SECTOR.
Let me start
with the age long saying that ‘HEALTH IS
WEALTH’ and as we all know that without fitness, health and agility the body is
just like a car without an engine therefore it could hardly perform optimally.
I have been following up with the camaraderie and deceptions in the name of
campaigns and manifestos by the PDP and
APC respectively, the greater part of their message is centered upon
taking over power and retaining power at all cost from one another. To whom
much is given, much is expected, Nigerians do not expect less from Government
in certain areas of social welfare like Health, Security, Electricity, Basic Education,
Road and other basic infrastructures. Therefore it will not be too much to ask
the Government at all levels to provide FREE medical services to all the
citizens of this great nation considering the vast and abundant wealth at our
disposal, also taking into cognizance the colossal thievery and corruption
going on in the corridor of power, this amount in billions of dollars are either
being stolen, siphoned, laundered, mismanaged and corruptly diverted into
private pockets of our leaders is enough to provide FREE MEDICAL CARE for
everyone in this Nation. However, our leaders both the present FG led by the
PDP and the opposition parties largely led by APC are complacent on this issue
by not providing enough for the Health system to function effectively.
PATRICK SAWYERR
of Liberia really expose the lag in the Health management system of this
country when he came with the EBOLA virus into the country last year August 2014,
save for the fire brigade approach of the Lagos State Government, Nigeria would
have been worst hit by the lethal virus. According to the World Health Organization
(WHO) standard of doctor-patient ratio 1:600, Nigeria currently posts a poor
doctor-patient ratio of 1:3500. In the last 6months I have had the cause to
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