The Labour Party Presidential Candidate in 2023 general election, Mr Peter Obi, has donated N20 million to Godfrey Okoye University Teaching Hospital, Enugu for their ongoing hospital project.
Obi said his support to nursing schools was for the fact that Nigeria needed more than 1.2 million nurses to addresses shortage of profession in the country’s hospitals.
Presenting the Cheque on Tuesday at the hospital premise in Enugu, Obi said the world was going to have more than 30 million shortages of nurses by the year 2030 if more attention was not given to the sector.
He, however, urged the nursing students to be serious with their studies, emphasising that the country would need their services more.
“Already Nigeria needs about 1.2 million nurses as they do not have enough registered nurses and therefore, you are on the right call and should take it seriously as it is something that the world needs.
“We need to have you in our community hospitals which are not working today because of shortage of manpower,” Obi said.
“A report from the World Bank this month showed that poverty is worsening in Nigeria and UNICEF report showed that Nigeria is one of the countries with more malnourished children and overtaken by India in infant mortality,”.
This, he said, occurred because leaders abandoned governance for something else instead of using the country’s resources to do the right thing.
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