Bill Gates, Dangote Amazes Me With Contribution To Global Health
Microsoft founder,
Mr. Bill Gates, is full of praise for Nigerian businessman, Alhaji Aliko
Dangote, for what the American philanthropist describes as his generous
contribution to global health.
Bill Gates says he is
amazed by Dangote’s generosity with his resources and time.
Speaking ahead of the
release of the 2018 Bill and Melinda Gates Annual Letter to a group of
journalists from different African countries in a telephone conference, Bill Gates
said: “I am always amazed how generous he has been both with his resources and
his time.
Just last month, he and
I spent six hours on video conferences with six of the northern states where
we, twice a year, check in with them and look at their primary healthcare
quality in terms of the staff, the location, the supply chain and the results
they are getting in terms of vaccination and other interventions.
Asked what he would say to convince
billionaires in Nigeria to consider the commonwealth in their country instead
of acquiring wealth and stashing it offshore,.
Bill Gates said, “In
the entire world, Mr. Dangote has been a very key partner” (of the Gates
Foundation in funding global health). And the big challenge of improving the
primary healthcare, particularly in the North, I know we would not have a
chance of doing that without him.
He is
the only one who I am personally aware of his significant activities that is
working in this key sector. There may be other people working in sectors
like education or other environments that we don’t work in.
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