Barely six months after its official commissioning, the Akwa Ibom State 20thanniversary Specialist Hospital has commenced operation with the arrival of more than 50 medical experts from India and other parts of the world.
The experts drawn from different fields of medicine such as surgery, gyneacology and other areas arrived Uyo last weekend after delays over immigration issues and have been quartered in a special estate built for them by the state government.
Operations at the quaternary hospital which is also a referral centre for major medical checks and treatment in the West African sub region suffered setbacks in the past due to licensing, immigration and other logistics and technical issues.
Addressing journalists shortly after presenting the experts to newsmen yesterday in Uyo, state commissioner for health Dr Dominic Ukpong maintained that the hospital was purposely built with state of the art equipments and experienced personnel to make it a one stop medical centre In Sub Saharan Africa. “In the first place I want people to know that this is a referal hospital for tertiary health facilities in the sense that medical issues beyond the reach of the teaching hospitals we have in thus part of the world can be referred to here.
“The equipments we have here and the capacities of the medical experts we have recruited to start the hospital are meant to redirect medical tourism from India and Europe to Akwa Ibom and we are confident that with the superior services we are offering here the hospital will in a short time become a reference point I Sub Saharan Africa at least.
“I am saying this because I have been a medical Doctor for long and I can assure you that the investment the state government has made here in terms of latest medical equipments is second to none.” Ukpong explained.
The commissioner said that the hospital management would soon advertise for other positions in the facility and warned prospective applicants against falling prey to dubious persons who obtain money from people with promises to help them secure employment in the hospital.
He explained that the state government would soon initiate a health insurance scheme that would enable people get treatment at the facility at a premium since the services offered at the hospital could initially be beyond the reach of the common man.
Facilities at the hospital amongst others include a 640 slide CT scan, two CAT Labs for interventional cardiology and three Modular Theatres that would ensure that things like open surgery, penal transplant and other major surgical operations are carried out in the hospital.
By: Idongesit Ashameri,
Daily Independent News
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