UNTH: Why we relocate services back to old site, By CMD

About 17 years aft it relocated from its aged impermanent tract successful Enugu municipality to the imperishable tract successful Ituku Ozalla community, besides successful Enugu State, the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) is acceptable to relocate immoderate services backmost to the aged site.

Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital, Prof. Obinna Onodugo, said that the request to efficaciously utilise her aesculapian expertise and execute businesslike work transportation informed the determination to relocate immoderate services backmost to the aged site.

Onodugo explained to the members of the House of Representatives Committee connected Health, who were connected oversight relation to the infirmary that immoderate exigency services would determination to the rehabilitated aged tract to alteration the infirmary service the radical better.

He stated that millions of naira had been spent successful renovating the structures successful the aged tract and that the question would soon commence. The infirmary moved to the imperishable tract connected January, 2007.

Explaining that the infirmary was losing gross and it’s catchment owed to the region and determination of the imperishable site, Onodugo stated that the thought would assistance the infirmary tally better.

“We person done a batch of enactment determination and priming it for exigency services. The thought is to make a spot wherever radical successful municipality tin easy access. We person 10 schools flourishing there. The infinitesimal we realise this, we volition beryllium capable to vie with different hospitals town. Many radical debar this spot due to the fact that of the location. It is not casual to beryllium accessed”, helium said 

Onodugo who added that services successful the infirmary had been afloat automated, stressed that they had flooded their perennial h2o situation by instauration of a dam and h2o works. He, however, regretted lack of CT scan and MRI instrumentality successful the hospital, saying it was hindering attraction of specialized cases successful the hospital. He said that arsenic a mode to lick information challenges, implicit 45 CCTV has been mounted wrong and extracurricular the infirmary arsenic good arsenic deforestation  of the surroundings.

 He stressed that portion of her information challenges was the kidnap of the workers, stressing nevertheless that with the cameras and involution by Enugu State government, determination was much information beingness successful the hospital.

Chairman of the committee,  Amos Magaji, had frowned astatine the enactment cognition of astir Federal Government owned wellness institutions, saying it was encouraging question of Nigerians to different parts of the state successful hunt of amended healthcare.

He said that the Federal Government had tried to find and supply the champion of aesculapian facilities successful the hospitals, lamenting nevertheless that portion hospitals owned and tally by individuals with little superior instrumentality and expertise were flourishing that of the authorities with much superior facilities and manpower were inefficient.

Magaji, regretted that contempt the billions of naira hospitals person crossed the country, they hardly make fractional of the wealth arsenic gross astatine the extremity of the year.

He called for betterment successful service, saying the authorities was acceptable and prepared to bash much for the healthcare sector.