Health Ministers Unveils The Federal University Teaching Hospital, Owerri ||| NEWS CORNER

The Hon. Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire and his Minister of State counterpart, Hon. Joseph Ekumankama will be in Owerri this Friday for the unveiling of the Federal University Teaching Hospital, formerly (FMC) and the commissioning of signature projects built by the federal government.

The Chief Guest of Honor and Chief Host is the Governor, distinguished Senator Hope Uzodinma. This is sequel to the amendment of the law and its signing by the President in November, 2022.

The federal University Teaching Hospital, Owerri is one of the busiest health facility in Nigeria with over 300,000 patients seen annually. The Hi-impact projects to be commissioned include: the Medical Oxygen Production Plant, 80 KVA Solar Grid, and the foundation stone laying for the E-Library, Building for the FUTO Medical School by the Chief Guest of Honor, Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodinma.

Other major projects completed by the present Management led by Dr Kingsley Achigbu are: Upgrading, Restructuring and Equipping of the Renal Dialysis Center, Construction of Research Center, Construction of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging ( M.R.I)_Building, Construction of a Central Sterile Services Department (SSD) Building and construction of Isolation Center among numerous others. Already House Officers quarters at their Outreach center in Umuamusa, Njaba is completed.

Ongoing projects include; the construction of a Trauma Center, the only one in the South East, Construction of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic/Maternity Ward and the construction of Specialist Outpatients Building Complex.

Renovated Structures are: The General Outpatients Clinic (GOPC) Complex. Renovated Amenity Ward, Renovated Theatre Complex and the Pharmacy Department Complex.

As a teaching hospital, we have the clinical capacity to attend to our patients .These medical and para medical personnel are trained and retrained regularly. Obsolete equipments are replaced with Hi-tech ones. In short, the federal university teaching hospital is good to go.

This quantum leap couldn’t have been possible if not for the harmony that exist in the place and the open door policy adopted by the Management. Through prudent management of scarce resources, Dr Kingsley Achigbu and his Management team have been able to turn around the fortunes of the Teaching Hospital to play its tripartite mandate of Training, Research and Rendering health care services to our people.

No doubt, the upgrading of the Federal Medical Center to a Federal University Teaching Hospital and the provision of these very important infrastructures, shows the premium, President Buhari places on the health and well being of the citizenry.
With these facilities in the place and highly motivated staff, the health care delivery services in the state and it’s environs will be tremendously improved. Kudos the the Governor for creating the enabling environment for excellence to thrive in the state.