Says Nurses play pivotal roles in healthcare delivery than Medical Doctors
By Suzan Edeh, Bauchi
Former Governor of Anambra State and Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi, has donated N10 million to Malkiya College of Nursing Sciences and N5 million to Intisharu Taufizul Quranic Islamic School in Bauchi as part of his humanitarian gesture.
Speaking at the Malikiyya College of Health and Social Sciences in Bauchi on Friday, Peter Obi said that Nurses are very critical to effective and efficient service delivery in the healthcare sector of the country, pointing out that they should be treated with the utmost respect and dignity.
He said that Nurses are engaged in essential healthcare services delivery much more than Medical Doctors as they
are in the forefront of healthcare services delivery even in the remotest areas of the country where Medical Doctors cannot access.
“The human infrastructure that drives health, and if we talk about that human infrastructure, at the foundation, is not physical. So you have to say physical. You are very important.”
“The Nurse is more important than the Doctor. The Doctor is between the Nurse the patient. The Nurse owns the patient. The Nurse is everything. And it has been predicted that in 2030 the world will be full of nurses. So you are leading an important cause.”
“So, I thank you, the Proprietor for what you are doing here. I thank the President of Faculty, because I know there is a similar things happening across. We need to help. We need to support what you are doing. What you are doing is for the society,”
“And for those of us, it is not politics. I go to about 60, 70 Nursing Schools annually to support them. Because I know the critical roles you play in delivering effective healthcare services across the country.”
“We have a issue of health today, and it is important that we do the right thing. So, build a better country where people will be healthy, because health is wealth. So thank you. I will do more to the requests, because they are important.”
“So whatever we can do to support those youths, we need to do it. Today, we know that the number one measure of success of any nation is health. And you’ve got to measure health without thinking of the human infrastructure that drives health. And if we’re talking about health, we’re talking about social health.We are here univited just to come and see what you are doing and see how we can support you” he said
In his remarks, Proprietor of the College, Hon Aminu Mohammed Danmaliki, commended Peter Obi for finding time out of his tight schedules to visit the College, particularly uninvited.
“This is an act of effective leadership, a demonstration of concern for the growth and development of the country. He surprised us by the visit.” He said
Aminu Mohammed Danmaliki assured that the donation will be used for further expand the scope of Nursing education in the College in order to ensure that the students got the best of education and become professionals at the end of their lectures.
He also visited an Islamic school, Intisharu Taufizul Quaranic Islamic School in Yelwa where he emphasized the importance of formal and religious education for a better society.
He commended the integration of Quranic and western education saying that it is the best way to mould future leaders by inculcating fear of God and good leadership virtues in them.