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From Jane Uba, Ogochukwu Asogwa and Joy Anieke, Enugu
President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Dr. Mike
Ozovehe Ogirima, in a meeting held at Villa Toscana Hotel, Independence layout,
Enugu, advocated provision of world class hospitals that would compete favourably
with those in developed countries.
Speaking during the eight days Annual General Meeting of the NMA, Ogirima
appealed to government to allow private sectors set up mega hospitals with high
technological services. He added that the appeal is intended to provide a
Public Private Partnership (PPP) to improve the health sector.
He emphasized on the risks that awaits them as doctors:
"Our roads are no more safe, because of road traffic
accidents, armed robberies and numerous cases of kidnappings of our colleagues
on their way out their duties at odd hours of the day of which some of them are
ignored in the process," Ogirima noted.
He further advised the government to establish national emergency
ambulant system along highways.
Also, he recommended that rescue system should be put in place and
a nation code established for distress calls. He added that health centres should
also build along major roads with adequate health personnel to work twenty-four
hours a day.
"This will sustain life before the victim goes to receive an
adequate health attention in a trauma centre,” he said. He recommended that trauma
centres should be located in high risk places and spread across all the
geopolitical zones.
Ogirima commended the federal government for the steps it has
taken to address the health needs in the country, also for the appropriate
salary placement of junior doctors, adding that NMC would sustain the
collaborations with the government and other nongovernmental organizations.
In advising the government, He says: "The government is
further advised to step up the available capacities at all levels and hospitals
to absorbing our products for internship and streamline the residency programmes
to only centres with resources to train specialists."
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