How Possible? Zamfara State Allegedly Has Less Than 10 Qualified Doctors

 

A governor aspirant of Zamfara state; Ibrahim Shehu Gusau (pictured above) who was a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) before he defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has revealed that there are only 10 qualified government-sponsored medical doctors serving in Zamfara State which has exposed the citizens to untold suffering and avoidable death as he says the successive administrations had failed the state.

Speaking during an interview programme “Hot seat” put together by the House of Representatives Press Corps in Abuja, Gusau said that Governor Abdullaziz Yari, the APC governor of the state had compounded the situation by failing to provide conducive working environment for doctors and nurses in the state who were left with no option but to seek greener pastures in other parts of the country.

He also added that apart from the poor state of health facilities and absence of qualified doctors, Zamfara was not faring better in terms of other amenities like road, water and educational facilities which he said has confined the state to the least educationally-developed state in the country.

Gusau said he had advantages over Yari in the governorship race because he was from the Zamfara Central Senatorial zone, coupled with the marginalisation of the people of the state and the abysmal performance of the APC-led administration. He said:

“I, and my party, the PDP, have a bright chance of winning the governorship elections because of certain calculations. And I can tell you this, in Zamfara State, we have three senatorial zones, and out of these three zones, I happen to come from the central zone. And in 16 years of democracy, my zone has not produced a governor. However, the other two zones have produced two and one governor respectively.

“My place (State) is being degraded so fast that I have to do something to rescue it, and 2015 is the time to do that. 16 years of democracy has not yielded anything for the people of the state. Take education for instance, each time examinations are held, Zamfara State always scored the lowest, you can check the statistics. There are no infrastructure in the state. No medical facilities and personnel. A situation where you have less than 10 doctors and nurses is a crisis of epic proportion, and the insecurity that has gone on unabated is unacceptable. I can go on and on with the list”.

Source: The Herald