Lawrence Nwimo, Awka
Some health workers in some health facilities in Anambra State have displayed displeasure over the promise by the state governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, of free antenatal care and child delivery services in PHCs across the state.
As a result, they may try to sabotage the laudable project.
Ikengaonline reported that governor Soludo who recently launched the initiative at General Hospital Nnobi, said it was part of efforts to cushion the effects of the petrol subsidy removal on the people of the state.
Disclosing this to newsmen, a top government official who doesn’t want his name mentioned said, “We are doing well in the health sector. You may have heard of our free antenatal and free delivery services.
“Our governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, is committed to this project. Though some of our health workers are not happy with the pronouncement. They see it as a way of denying them of ‘some little little back hand income.’
“They are secretly protesting against it for selfish interests, because for them that will be the end of their extra income. We won’t allow them to sabotage the programme.
“The programme has come to stay. The governor is passionate and committed about it. Those are the kind of things we do here in the state to make life more meaningful to our people.”
