Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, on Friday lamented the state of the Imo State University Teaching Hospital, Orlu. Receiving the report of the Visitation Panel to the hospital from the committee’s chairman, Prof. Frank Akpuaka, on Thursday at the Sam Mbakwe Executive Council Chambers, Uzodimma said the recommendations would help in improving the health sector.
The governor said, “If IMSUTH is sick, then the entire health system of Imo State is sick.” He said IMSUTH was positioned to be self-sustaining and provide effective health care services if properly managed. Uzodinma promised to block all financial leakages in the hospital. However, he regretted the non-accreditation of IMSUTH’s College of Medicine since its inception.
Akpuaka listed poor roads, poor funding, infrastructural decay, inability to retain workers and non-accreditation by the National Universities Commission as the major problems of the hospital.
Source: Punch
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