A statement yesterday signed by the Deputy National Chairman of the League, Surveyor Martins Abdul Abulagba said the non opening of the fully furnished hospital was a disservice to the people and called on President Muhammadu Buhari to prevail on the governor to open the hospital.
But the state Commissioner for Health, Dr David Osifo said the process of opening the facility was already on as personnel were being employed and trained to work in the facility and denied that the delay in opening the place was political.
“It is a rude shock to every keen observer of socioeconomic indicators of governance in our dear state, and we can say without fear, let or hindrance that Governor Obaseki’s lip treatment to the health sector, particularly, the government’s blunt refusal to open a well built, tastily furnished and sophisticatedly equipped Central hospital is unsavory, wicked and a remarkably devious policy action against our people, many of whom critically need this facility for survival.