The Member representing Ankpa/Omala/Olamaboro Federal Constituency of Kogi State in the House of Representatives, Hon. Abdullahi Ibrahim Halims, has lamented the lack of a federal health facility in Kogi East senatorial zone of the state.
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Halims while addressing participants at a two-day public hearing organized by the House of Representatives Committee on Health Care Institutions called for the support of his colleagues on a Bill seeking the establishment of a Federal Medical Centre in Ankpa,
Mr. Halims said having a medical centre in Ankpa would help to ameliorate the challenges of the people with regards to health care services.
He said “the creation of the FMC will further enhance the healthcare delivery systems available to the people, adding that the local government already has facilities in the zonal hospital which was formerly a general hospital.”
The lawmaker therefore called on the Federal Ministry of Health to consider the Bill as necessary and important to the equitable distribution of health infrastructure in Nigeria.
Representatives from Rano Emirate of Kano State led by the Emir, Alhaji Kabiru Muhammed Inuwa also made passionate appeal for the support of a Bill seeking the establishment of a Federal Medical Centre in Rano.
On School of Nursing in Adamawa State, both the former Governor, Bala Ngilare and former Director General of the National Institutes for Legislative and Democratic Studies, Prof. Ladi Hammalai, urged the committee to consider the Bill seeking for the establishment of a School of Nursing, Midwifery and Sciences for passage.
According to them, Maiha Local Government in which the college of Nursing is to be located is such an area that has suffered long Federal neglect.
They said apart from enhancing access to health related education and development of the people of the area and Adamawa as a whole, it would also improve the socio-economic lives of the people through commercial activities and employment opportunities that would be available to them.
The Chairman of the committee, Mr. Pascal Obi commended the participants for their efforts to make their voices counted in the legislative process of enacting very important laws for the benefit of Nigerians.
He assured stakeholders of due diligence, saying that every concern raised in their memoranda would be carefully and painstakingly looked into, with a view to making very informed recommendations to the House for consideration.
