In Nigerian politics, many individuals imagine that empathy is commonly spoken about however not often practiced with real sincerity. Gracias! I toured across the nation, and I discovered an exception. A tall, brained, and charismatic Governor Dikko Umaru Radda, embodied the very essence of compassionate governance.
An Austrian medical physician and psychotherapist Alfred Adler as soon as mentioned, “Empathy is seeing with the eyes of one other, listening with the ears of one other, and feeling with the guts of one other.” These phrases are usually not simply obscure; they discover their truest manifestation in how Governor Radda approaches management, and particularly in how he’s rewriting the healthcare narratives in Katsina State.
Like most Katsinawa, I’m at all times excited that we’ve a governor who doesn’t solely take heed to folks’s yearnings however takes vital motion. Radda governs with robust empathy and humility; he has a deep private engagement with the challenges going through Katsina residents.
I witnessed firsthand a unprecedented second that epitomises Radda’s unusual empathy. Throughout a routine convoy cease for prayers some weeks again alongside Daura Street, a girl in her 50s approached, looking for assist for medical wants. Whereas one of many governor’s aides initially tried to dismiss her with a small money supply, the governor noticed the interplay intently.
Earlier than the prayers, Radda personally known as the girl, meticulously investigating her well being issues to understand how real her case was to warrant looking for help from random passers-by. Happy with the authenticity, the governor doesn’t solely present cheap monetary help but additionally assigned one in all his aides to make sure the girl obtained correct consideration.
In case you ask me what this implies? I inform you this wasn’t mere charity – it was systematic and compassionate intervention.
Typically time, the governor makes unannounced visits to well being centres throughout Katsina State. It’s both he drives himself or he’s accompanied by one in all his safety aides. He personally checks on sufferers, listens to their medical challenges, settles excellent medical payments, gives prayers and meticulously assesses the standard of consideration given to the sufferers.
The visits, which many aren’t even conscious, however the beneficiaries of this type gesture can bear witness and that’s sufficient.
It’s shocking to see the governor’s dedication to healthcare transcending particular person acts of kindness. Below Radda’s management, the state now boasts of 1,751 major, secondary and tertiary well being establishments in Nigeria, with over 85 % totally purposeful.
Let’s take a fast flashback to the governor’s “Constructing Your Future Blueprint”, the place he had a goal to determine complete major healthcare amenities in all of the 361 wards and basic hospitals in every of the 34 native authorities areas.
This imaginative and prescient, to naysayers, could also be unachievable or be counted as pure political talks. Reality be instructed, the governor isn’t sweeping any of his guarantees beneath the carpet; he chooses his phrases fastidiously. He doesn’t promise what he can’t obtain. This you will want to review.
Below Radda, 102 well being centres have been refurbished, 22 are ongoing, and 34 have been accredited for renovation. Going ahead, Governor Radda demonstrates his love for fairness and evenness within the provision of well being amenities. You learn this piece: Complete Well being Centres at Zango, Kafur, Faskari, Charanchi, and Dandume have been upgraded to Common Hospitals’ commonplace.
All hail Governor Radda for N9.4 billion funding in healthcare facility enhancements throughout Katsina State, with an Imaging Centre at Common Amadi Rimi Common Hospital, Batagarawa, beneath building. In case you’re listening to this for the primary time, the centre will probably be outfitted with cutting-edge machines, and it’ll turn out to be one of the best in northern Nigeria. Sure, give Governor Radda his flowers. He deserves it. The person is doing it in another way. The person is governing with robust and unusual empathy.
As you may additionally bear in mind that Governor Radda’s diplomatic mission to World Medical Aid in Detroit, United States of America (USA), has already begun yielding outcomes? Of the ten containers of medical provides and gear secured in November 2023, one has been delivered to Katsina. Two are enroute from Lagos and the remaining are nonetheless on the excessive seas. Guess what? Every container is value $1 million. Is that not huge? It will possibly solely be achieved by a frontrunner with robust and unusual empathy.
Simply earlier than I draw this curtain, let me go away you with these phrases. Governor Radda doesn’t simply govern -he connects, feels, and acts. Whereas our political sq. is commonly characterised by detachment, Radda stays an epitome of management rooted in real human empathy. Katsina is blessed to have a frontrunner like Dikko Umaru Radda who governs with unusual empathy.
–Mohammed, the chief press secretary to the governor of Katsina State despatched this piece from Katsina
