Members of Anambra State House of Assembly Committee on Health led by its Chairman, Hon. Cater Nnamdi Dike Umeoduagu has paid a familiarization visit to the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Anambra Medical Oxygen Production Plant, Mrs Nwamaka Arinze at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Amaku, Awka.
Hon. Umeoduagu in his speech, stated that the familiarization visit was important for them to interface with the new Managing Director, and expressed optimism that Mrs. Arinze will deliver because of her passion for the job.
The lawmaker however regretted that the former Managing Director of the plant has refused to leave office for Mrs Arinze to work seamlessly and called on Governor Soludo to immediately call the former MD to order.
The member representing Njikoka 1 Constituency, Hon. Timothy Ifedioramma also assured that the House will support Mrs Arinze to succeed and expressed dissatisfaction about factors depriving the new MD of the plant to assume office fully, which he said made the Committee members to be stranded when they arrived the facility.
The minority leader and member representing Ekwusigo constituency Hon. Onyebuchi Offor, on his part, said that Mrs Arinze has all it takes to deliver and described the action of the past MD of the plant as condemnable.
Responding, Mrs Nwamaka Arinze revealed that she was one of the people that conceptualized the idea of building the plant during the immediate past administration in the state. She said that she will do everything possible to ensure that Ndi Anambra benefit from the plant.
Mrs. Arinze, who said that the federal government has set up a national policy to ensure that Nigeria achieves sustainable development goals of which oxygen plant is a critical component of, thanked Governor Chukwuma Soludo for giving her the opportunity to serve.
The MD appealed to the members of the House of Assembly to make laws that will make hospitals in Anambra to always have enough oxygen in their hospitals in order to end occurrences of avoidable deaths in the state and disclosed that the plant is now in full operation to serve Ndi Anambra better.
