The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party
(NNPP), Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, has promised to do everything within his power
not to go abroad for medication if he is voted as president at the 2023 general
election.
He made the promise while speaking at the People’s Townhall
2023 powered by Channels Television on Sunday night.
President Muhammadu Buhari returned to Nigeria Sunday
evening, following a “routine medical check-up,” in London, UK.
Buhari left the country on October 31.
When asked about his plans for the health sector if he
became the president of the country, Kwankwaso said, “I will do everything
under the sun not to go anywhere [abroad] for any medication.
“The failures we have today, the one we said we are going to
correct, affects all sectors, including health and I am happy to inform you
that our package starts with education as we did in Kano. We built five
institutions under the ministry of health – two nursing schools, two midwifery
schools and a health technology college.
“We sent men and women abroad in addition to all the
scholarships to read medicines. We improved all our general hospitals in Kano.
“We have been to these hospitals, seen all the equipment
there [foreign hospitals] and there is no one that Nigeria cannot purchase. So,
there is not much difference with what we have here in our hospitals.”
The former defence minister said his administration would
bring in manpower to man the equipment in Nigerian hospitals just as Nigerians
relocated abroad to work as medical personnel.
He vowed to remove all the bottlenecks preventing Nigerian
medical personnel from excelling, recalling that as the governor of Kano State
one of the best graduating medical students from a university in the state
could not get a place for housemanship and had to come to him to help her out.
“You need to know someone to get housemanship but we will
remove all those bottlenecks,” the NNPP presidential candidate promised.
The former Kano governor said the education sector would be
top of his administration’s priority, adding that more resources would be
committed to funding education at all levels.
While lamenting the high number of out-of-school children in
the country, he said his blueprint would take children out of the street and
build more schools across the country.
He also vowed to tackle corruption headlong and invest in
the energy sector in order to revitalise the manufacturing sector of the
economy.
He dispelled the insinuation that he is too old to face the
numerous challenges facing the country, boasting that he’s fitter than other
contestants.
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