By Raymond Ozoji
Copyright independent
AWKA – Gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 8th Anambra governorship election Evange-list Nicholas Ukachukwu has described government-owned hospitals in Anambra State as glorified mortuaries.
Ukachukwu who made the description during the inaugu-ration of his campaign council at the APC party secretariat in Awka, observed that govern-ment-owned hospitals under the present administration operated with very obsolete and moribund facilities leading to poor health-care services to the people.
He however assured Ndi-Anambra that if elected into office as governor of the state, his administration will enhance from primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare and that his govern-ment will synergize all of them so they can function effectively and offer comprehensive healthcare services to the citizens, stressing that 50% of the state internally generated revenue is enough to revamp as well as reinvigorate the state health sector, amongst numerous other laudable plans he has for Anambra.
When contacted to respond to the claim by the APC governor-ship candidate that Anambra hos-pitals are glorified mortuaries, the state commissioner for health, Dr. Ben Afam Obidike, requested this journalist to produce a video clip of where the APC candidate made such a statement before he
