Fifteen percent of the $30 million earmarked by Pfizer for healthcare development in Kano will be spent on the administrators of the fund. So says the chairman of the trust fund. Speaking in an interaction with newsmen shortly after the second meeting of the trustees of the Pfizer/Kano State Healthcare Programme Trust Fund, the chairman Professor Shehu Galadanci disclosed that his committee, which is charged with supervising construction of befitting healthcare facilities in the state, has a $30 million allocation.
What will the money be spent on? The chairman disclosed that the 15 percent, which translates to $4.5 million, will be used to provide temporary office accommodation for the trustees, provide accommodation for committee members who come for meetings from outside Kano, pay remuneration of consultants and take care of incidental expenses.
He also disclosed that the committee was set to start working on building brand new comprehensive healthcare facility once land is allocated for the purpose.
Observers are however worried that the whopping sum of $4.5 million is too high, too exorbitant for catering to the comfort of committee members. “It is a case of spending too much money on hospitality instead of the hospital”, said Mallam Hadi Usman Ado, a pharmacist. Perhaps the committee is still in the teething stages and the amount earmarked will be reviewed downwards. Otherwise members of the trust fund committee will be hard put explaining why they should not be described as freeloaders.
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