OUR POLITICIANS ARE NOT THINKING It will interest you to know that Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Pennsylvania, USA is one of the largest and oldest children’s hospitals on earth and it has been ranked as the very best children hospital in America by the US News & World Report for the 5th consecutive year. As at 2012, it was number one in six out of ten specialties, more than any other paediatric hospital in the nation. The hospital, which also does more research studies than any other children’s hospital in America admits over 28,000 children every year and almost 1.2 million are seen at its emergency and outpatient departments. When the Federal Government of Nigeria (even the state governments gan sef, why can’t Lagos or even Rivers or Bayelsa have one? Ehn?) builds massive national paediatric centers across the nation instead of spending N4 billion on the First Lady Mission House or N7 billion on city gates (like who on earth does that?), then Abiyamo might start to take them serious. -For a population of 170 million, that we do not have a national paediatric hospital of this scale is a shame. I must also point out that CHOP is a charitable, non-profit hospital that survives on the philanthropic donations. If the government of Nigeria cannot do anything useful and tangible, what of all the moneybags and billionaires? Can’t they just collabo and build at least one vast national health center, at least ONE? At this juncture, it is imperative for me to single out Otunba (Dr.) Olasubomi Balogun, CON, who singlehandedly sunk in over N3 billion into the building of the Otunba Tunwase National Paediatric Center (OTNPC) in Ijebu Ode and handed it over to the College of Medicine of the University of Ibadan and the University College, Ibadan (I imagine how happy Professor Odeku would have been if he was alive and present at the ceremony). For a nation with the highest rate of newborn deaths in Africa and the the second highest in the world, we need to re-examine our heads. Especially when you know that Nigerians have spent over N1.3 trillion naira buying about 200 private jets in a space of just five years. - In 2007, there were just 20 private jets in the country but today, they are in the hundreds and virtually every brand on earth are present -Falcons (Uncle Jona of Otuoke spent more than N7.65 billion naira on a French-made Dassault Falcon 7X jet, the first fully fly-by-wire business jet on earth), Gulfstreams, Global Expresses, Hawker-Siddleys, Embraers and Bombardiers, with each going for an average of $50 million (that’s very close to N8 billion). How more sick can we get as a people? Culled from: Abiyamo there are a lot of sick people in our government houses, starting from aso rock to the local government secretariats ..DA...
Posted on: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:21:31 +0000
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