- …offers cash gifts to vulnerable, urges govt, wealthy individuals to intervene
After leading the annual Ramadan preaching session at the famous Sultan Bello Mosque, Kaduna for 30 days, Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Abubakar Mahmud Gumi on Saturday visited two major state owned government hospitals in Kaduna.
Sheikh Gumi visited Gwamna Awan General Hospital in Southern Kaduna and Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital in Kaduna North.
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The visit had exposed Sheikh Gumi to the enormous challenges vulnerable patients and their relatives are facing.
“Most of the patients Sheikh Gumi saw do not even have money to feed themselves not to talk of affording medical expenses even on severe cases of emergency,” Gumi’s media consultant Tukur Mamu
(Dan-Iyan Fika) said in a statement.
The cleric offered cash gifts and words of consolation to the patients and their relatives.
Gumi lamented a situation where millions will be wasted on chartered aircrafts to attend wedding ceremonies, unnecessary events or attending children graduation abroad or wasting money on Umrah jamboree at a time there are more important things to do that will please Allah more.
He urged governments at all levels to provide more facilities in public hospitals, make doctors accountable and responsive and provide a means of taking care of the hospital bills of vulnerable patients.
Gumi also called on wealthy Nigerians to fear Allah and invest for the sake of humanity.
Sheikh Gumi then called on both federal and state governments to declare emergency in the Nigerian health sector.
