The Deputy Governor of Rivers State Dr. Ipalibo Harry Banigo says the State Chief Executive, Nyesom Wike was not only health-friendly but infuses health. She made the disclosure recently, while playing host to a delegation of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) at the Government House in Port Harcourt.
Banigo said, “We did not need to have a deputy governor as a medical doctor to prompt him to action, he by himself infuses health, he believes, thinks and acts health in all that he does. There are two areas he does not joke with, one is health and the other is education and of course social sectors like security so we are very lucky in Rivers State to have him as our governor. When Governor Wike came onboard, he insisted that the Rivers State University deserves to have a medical college because we have the manpower and Port Harcourt is very cosmopolitan, with a large population, which necessitated the need for us to train our medical personnel, and he did not stop until it came to fruition.
“We have employed so many professors and lecturers, so we are set to take the first intakes this year, and get the medical school running. We did not stop at tertiary hospitals our secondary and primary health services are top notch, our Zonal Hospital in Bori, Degema and Etche would be ready for commissioning early next year”.
Reemphasizing the need for doctors to be self-motivated, she said, “You signed up to be a doctor, for medical ethics, so, let us motivate ourselves to show that we believe in this profession. Let us encourage ourselves as doctors across board especially those of us who are on clinical services, develop that self-motivation and work as if your life depends on it and let the community you are serving be the ones to judge us.”
