ASHENEWS reports that the member representing Paikoro Constituency in the Niger state House of Assembly, Pharmacist Umar Nasir has disclosed that the Minna General Hospital cannot accommodate up to 50 per cent of the patients who visit the hospital daily.
According to him, as a result of this, the staff of the hospital now extort patients who need bed space and try to cause diversion of the patients to private hospitals.
Nasir states this whole presenting a ‘Matter of Urgent Public Importance’ during plenary of the Assembly on Wednesday.
“Facilities of the Minna General Hospital is now inadequate to cater for the teeming populace who patronize it.
“The structures erected by the past administration to address the inadequate facilities remain incompleted to date.
“It is observed that the completion of the project will help address this inadequacy. Patients who come daily cannot access beds due to lack of bed space and it has given room to several of the staff to extort the patients and cause diversion from the general hospital”, Nasir stated.
The Legislator stated the need for the House Committee on Health to launch an investigation into the incompletion of projects at the Minna General Hospital.
He further said that there is need for know why the Chief Medical Director of the hospital is not carried along on the reason why the projects were stopped.
Speaking, the Speaker of the Niger state House of Assembly, Honorable Abdulmalik Sarkin Daji said the mover of the motion is a member of the Committee of Health saying that the Committee should go ahead and carry out their oversight function and give their recommendations to the House.
He said that the Matter of Urgent Public Importance raised by the Legislator is put on hold until the committee submits its findings and recommendations.
