By Nna Anulumadu
The coordinator health services, Archdiocese of Onitsha Very Rev Dr. Basil Ekwunife last week bagged Ambassador of Ethics and Conscience award from Centre for Ethics and Self Value Orientation ( CESVO).
The Executive director of the Centre Ethicist Prince Salih Musa Yakubu while presenting the award to Fr Ekwunife who is also the vice chancellor of the Archdiocese stated that the coordinator won the award having successfully passed the center leadership on the ethical upright citizen committed to a better Nigeria after the conduct of their annual independent secret assessment programme.
He commended Fr Ekwunife for the high level of ethical standard compliance hospitals in Onitsha Archdiocese are exhibiting, describing it as encouraging and exemplary.
Also, in recognition of excellent performances of the great St Charles Borromeo Specialist Hospital Onitsha, the center presented Ethical Leadership and Compliance Certificate EIAA award to the Archbishop Valerian Okeke who was represented by the Chief Executive officer CEO of the hospital Rev Fr Dr Izunna Okonkwo . The CEO Fr Izunna was honoured with Professional Ethics Compliance Ambassador PECA Award for ensuring that ethical standard are maintained in the said hospital.
St Charles Borromeo College of Nursing Sciences led by the astute administrator Rev Fr Fidelis Nwanze bagged Cooperate Business Ethics and Integrity compliance award.
in his remarks, Fr Ekwunife described the award as a welcome development. His words: ” It is an encouragement that what we are doing are being appreciated by others we do not even know. It is an encouragement to all those who are around so that they will be motivated. It is also a call to strengthen our feathers more and strengthen areas that needed attention and improve more. We cannot be tired of learning because by leaning we empower our selves once more. We thus strengthened what we have already perfected and that makes for us more forbidable institution by extension more forbidable society. We thank the Archbishop for his encouragement that has actually led us far. It is a very big motivation.
Nothing good comes easy. All we have achieved are simply product of series of selfless sacrifices over the years. There is no gain in sharp practices, in trying to cut corners, in trying to award marks to students that doesn’t merit such marks or trying to admit somebody who have not passed into our institution. In essence, it is simply a product of sacrifices. If the Archbishop has said nobody should enter into College of Nursing Sciences without passing very well, it will be a very terrible tragedy if any of us under him should go away to do those things since it will spell doom, but because the management and the staff doesn’t comprise, the ethical compliance became possible. I encourage the staff not to relent and the students to keep on doing their best because it is already attracting positive attention from far and near”, he noted.
Center for Ethics and Self Value Orientation ( CESVO) is an international NGO exposing corruption, promoting Ethical and Value leadership, providing ethical education and self value Orientation of global citizens.
