Tinubu must reform health ministry � JOHESU

The Joint Health Sector Unions have urged the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to prioritise structural and infrastructural development in the health sector.

The National Vice-Chairman of JOHESU, Dr Obinna Ogbonna, made this known in an interview with The PUNCH.

JOHESU is the umbrella body of health workers� unions and associations, including the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, the Nigeria Union of Allied Health Professionals, the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, the Senior Staff Association of Universities Teaching Hospitals, Research Institutes, and Associated Institutions, and the Assembly of Healthcare Professionals.

�Ogbonna asked Tinubu to overhaul the Ministry of Health.

He said, �The Bola Tinubu government should look at the structural and infrastructural decay in the health sector. The decay in the health sector should be a thing of interest to the government.

�There should be an overhaul of the health ministry. The minister should not be a physician or a healthcare professional, the minister should be a seasoned administrator. The clinicians should concentrate on taking care of the patients because we are not even enough, so the clinicians should focus on taking care of the patients.�