The Management of Holy Rosary Hospital Emekuku has appealed to the Imo State Government to assist the 82-year-old hospital to enable it continue its health delivery to the people.

The Director of the hospital, Rev. Fr. Dr. Eunan Asomugha made the appeal in his address during the presentation of scholarship cheques to 50 students of the hospital’s School of Midwifery.

The scholarship was facilitated by the Imo State Government in collaboration with Shell Development Company.

The cheques were presented individually to the recipients by Governor Rochas Okorocha who was represented by the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Edward Ihejirika.

Fr. Asomugha, who welcomed the governor’s representative and his team on behalf of Archbishop Anthony J.V. Obinna, proprietor of the hospital, expressed joy over the visit, saying that the historic visit and the handover of cheques to the 50 students “will ever remain fresh in our minds”.

Though the management expressed gratitude to the State Government for the schlarship to the 50 students, it however pleaded for assistance to the hospital.

Some of the hospital’s urgent needs, according to Fr. Asomugha include: completion of the two-storey academic blocks for School of Nursing and Midwifery that is under construction, donation of a 500KVA generator to support their present generator which is 40 years old, assist the hospital with a new school bus for students assignments outside school and finally to consider the institution for grants and other government support to enable the hospital continue to meet the health needs of the people.

The hospital Director informed the Governor that the hospital is “an omnibus facility”, which offers employment to all and sundry as well as provide care and treatment to Nigerians weighed down by illness, apart from providing training in nursing, midwifery, laboratory and communication. “The truism is that any nation that toys with or ignores this all-important social and health sector is merely on a frolic”, Fr. Asomugha said, adding, “we believe that it is your recognition of the importance of health and education that motivated you (His Excellency) to come to the aid of our students thereby demonstrating that empowerment is very essential in the lives of our youths”.

Responding to the address, the Commissioner, Dr. Ihejirika said the Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha would have liked to present the cheques personally to the students but could not make it due to other engagements.

He said the scholarship was a clear demonstration of the Governor’s interest in the health sector. He used the opportunity to highlight some of the governor’s achievements in the area of health, including the ongoing construction of hospitals in the 27 LGAs, help at your door step and anti-natal free maternal care delivery in the state.

He commended the Director for the efficient management of the hospital and assured him that government would look into his requests.

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