Abia State Governor, Chief
Theodore Orji, has commissioned four projects completed by his administration
at the Amachara annex of the Abia State specialist and Diagnostic
centre,Umuahia.
The projects include the
Administrative block, house officer’s hostel, one 100 bed ward housing an
intensive care unit, a cardiac centre and a modern laboratory and an accident
and emergency department with ambulance which the governor donated to the
hospital.
Speaking at the event, the
Governor who said he was interested in the elongation of the lives of Abians
added that it was for that reason that he was moved to replicate what he saw
during one of his trips to the United State of America where major medical
facilities are located in one place.
The Governor disclosed that
his administration has expanded health centres in the state from 250 to 710
scattered in parts of the state.
Additionally, the Governor
said his government has successfully built 100 bedded hospitals in nine Local
Government Areas of the state and intends to replicate it in all the 17 LGAs to
enhance health care delivery to the people.
The Governor expressed
happiness that that the first batch of medical interns at Amachara Specialist
Hospital, have completed their training while plans were on to admit new ones.
Earlier,the commissioner
for Health, Dr. Okechukwu Ogah who said the hospital hopes to pursue
postgraduate residency training programme in general and family medicine in the
near future disclosed that the government has approved the recruitment of
specialists and other healthcare workers to ensure the objective.
He also stated that the
government has partnered with chevron oil company to construct a chest clinic
and the MDG to construct TB/HIV/AIDS/malaria treatment and research centre
located within the Amachara hospital.
Speaking, the Chief Medical
Director of the hospital, prof. Augustus Mbanaso, thanked the Governor for
transforming the health sector of the state as shown by the numerous
health centres, changes in the general hospitals in the state and the
transformation at the Amachara Specialist Hospital.