Mrs Catherine Odueze worried over Umuaka Community Hospital.
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Dame Catherine Odueze, a high profile community leader, reformer and ex president Catholic Women Organization Orlu Diocese has expressed her serious dismay and worries over the dilapidated state of Umuaka Community Hospital and called for an urgent intervention. Mrs Odueze, better known as Cathy Odueze by close associates made this disclosure in an interview she had with Umuaka Times a couple of weeks ago.
In the interview with an Umuaka Times correspondent who visited her in her Isiozi residence, Mrs Odueze narrated how she, other women leaders and organizations teamed up with their male counterparts at the Umuaka Town Development Union and began the project just few years after the Nigerian Biafran war which eventually gave birth to Umuaka Community Hospital. She disclosed that some people saw that the hospital would one day run into the troubled waters of mismanagement and advised that it should be handed over to the government or missionaries but some top voices in the community refused. “If they had listened to us then and handed the hospital to the government of missionaries, Umuaka Community Hospital would have been a very impressive health institution today in the state.”
When asked how the gains or financial benefits realized from the hospital were shared among the ten villages of Umuaka then, she said that never a day did any village in Umuaka receive any kobo from the hospital management board as its own share from the huge amount of money realized from the hospital.
In her conclusion, Mrs Odueze still maintained that there was a need to handover the hospital to either the government or missionaries for proper management and good service delivery.
