Posted on: Sat 23-05-2020

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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