All the patients who benefitted from Omisore’s largesse had completed their medical treatments, but were not allowed to go home due to their inability to pay their hospital bills until his intervention on the first day of the year.
Similarly, Omisore, a former chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriation, also presented gifts worth millions of naira to about 300 patients at the hospital as part of activities commemorating 2014.
In his interaction with some of the patients on their hospital beds, he explained that his visit to the hospital and presentation of gifts were part of his commitment of giving back to the underprivileged in the society.
According to Omisore, “the motive behind our visit to the hospital today was to show a kind of solidarity to those in special conditions and let them know that they are not forgotten. It is to show love to them and let them know that God has not forgotten them in their position. It is a way of showing to them that it is not over with them.
“There should be feelings of hope and love for the patients and others in different terrible conditions of life. And, I believe a hospital should be a healing centre, not a money-making enterprise, hence the decision to pay the outstanding hospital bills which have made it impossible for some patients to leave the hospital months after they are healed.”
Omisore, who underscored the significance of a functional health care service in the country, contended that health care delivery should be the responsibility of both the government and private individuals, stressing that he had cultivated the attitude of giving to the needy having tasted the good and bad sides of life in the past.
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