On what medical strength can the Specialist Hospital in Kogi State take over the services of Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja?
Conscience for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution (CHRCR) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to setup a judicial panel of enquiry to reveal the immediate and remote causes of the attack on Federal Medical Centre in Lokoja, Kogi state.
In a statement issued in Lokoja on Friday, the Executive Director of CHRCR, Comrade Idris Miliki Abdul called on the Inspector General of Police to launch investigation in the dastardly act by thugs.
The civil society organization demanded that the judicial panel of enquiry be headed by a Federal High Court judge.
CHRCR berated Kogi state government for directing that any patient rejected by FMC Lokoja be referred to the state-owned specialist hospital.
“It is more dangerous that Kogi State government officially announced in the wake of this madness that whoever is rejected by the FMC, Lokoja, should be refer to the specialist Hospital in Lokoja. A facility built by the previous administration that the present government have failed to equipped.
“On what medical strength can the Specialist Hospital in Kogi State take over the services of Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja?,” he queried.
It is noted that the relationship between the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Lokoja and the current government in Kogi State, since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, has been far from cordial.
“For whatever reasons, that could be responsible for this is very worrisome development which very unfortunate.
“It is unfortunate, worrisome, unexpected and condemnable in all ramifications, the invasion and violence attack, destruction of government properties and stealing of individual belongings that was perpetrated by armed hoodlums for unjust reasons.
“We wonder what should have led to that madness and art of hooliganism in a civilised world, and under a responsible government such should not happened.
“More worrisome, is the respond from Kogi State government, claiming that this ugly incident occurred as a result of non-attendant to a patient without a scientific and medical prove.
“For the current government in Kogi State, that has existed for more than four years could not boost of verifiable investment in the health sector.
“Even the so called Isolation Centre, that is directly in front of the governor party, was built by the immediate administration before the emergence of Yahaya Bello. Four years down the line, and having received not less than 300 billion in statutory allocations, to both state and local government, the bailout funds, Paris Club, infrastructural refund money and internally generated revenue, the health sector in Kogi state is at a sorry condition, as nothing magnificent has been added by this current administration.”
