Pregnant Women, Kids & Old People Deserve Free Healthcare – Engr. JohnBosco Onunkwo

MICHAEL AKINOLA

Owing to the hardship brought about by the advent of the Coronavirus and the events that have followed such, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Engr Johnbosco Onunkwo, has called on the Willie Obiano administration to offer in all government hospitals and primary healthcare centres free healthcare services to a select number of categories namely, pregnant women, women, children and those over the ages of 60. 

Onunkwo stated this in a press statement where he called for the Government to ameliorate the sufferings of the Anambra people who would still seek medical treatment for a number of sicknesses and diseases. 
“In the advent of the Coronavirus and the efforts to check the spread, we are aware that certain policies of the Government as well as the effects of the virus itself will to an extent disrupt or affect the purchasing power of a number of our people in Anambra State.” 
“It is simple economics, that at times like this the burden of such a pandemic and other resultant factors will contribute to weigh down the purchasing power of the ordinary man and woman. It is to this end that I urge the Government to implement a set of measures that will see that a category of people seeking medical attention in state Government hospitals and Primary Healthcare centres are treated for free. This will enable them to have some money left to purchase drugs as well as provide themselves with certain essentials required for everyday living such as food.” 
“I would have targeted all categories if I were Governor, giving a blanket cover for all citizens because at this point I can feel their pain. However, I would be happy if Governor Obiano via this measure will be able to cater for pregnant women, women, children and both man and woman who has attained the age of 60 and above” Onunkwo said.
The Umuchu born philanthropist whose foundation, the Johnbosco Onunkwo Foundation, has been offering free medical care to hundreds of thousands of Ndi Anambra also hinted on how his Foundation would aggressively offer such services should the ban on large gatherings be lifted. 
“We have been in the business of catering for a number of people, we intend to very much continue to offer succour to these people as soon as the restrictions on large gatherings arelifted; covering as many LGAs as we can before Christmas this year” he said.