Writing on her SnapChat, the President’s daughter said the clinic is heavily under-equipped and does not having simple drugs, despite the N3bn allocated for the clinic in the 2017 budget.
“Why isn’t there simple paracetamol, gloves, syringes? Why do patients/staff have to buy what they need in the state house clinic?” She said in one post, and in another, added, “More than N3billion budgeted for the State House Clinic and workers there don’t have equipment to work with? Why?”
While Zahra has raised a valid complaint at a time a Nigerian popular dancer, Ijo Chris died after being taken to five different hospitals which sadly did not have oxygen tanks, it is also worthy to note that the “allocation to State House medical centre was reduced drastically from N3.89 billion to N331.7 million” in the 2017 budget, as Herald Newspapers confirmed.
Also worthy of note is the fact that N3.87billion was however allocated for the clinic in the 2016 budget. Thus Zahra’s concerns may still be valid, because the hospital could not possibly have gone derelict in one year, if the N3.87billion allocation was judiciously used in 2016.
See her post:
Zahra Buhari calls out State House clinic
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