Skip to main content

Group applauds Buhari on infrastructural development in FMC Asaba

  

The Center for Peace, Transparency and Accountability (CPTA) has commended the Buhari-led administration for making key appointments that have been pivotal to the rapid transformation witnessed in the health sector.


This commendation was issued in a statement made available to newsmen on Tuesday, which was signed by the Executive Director of the Centre, Comrade Patrick Ogheneyero, after a three-day independent performance assessment visit to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Asaba, Delta state.


Ogheneyero stated that he was amazed at the level of commitment to rapidly bring quality and premier healthcare services to Delta state.


He also applauded the Minister of Health for his commitment to healthcare development both at the primary and tertiary levels, as well as the Chief Medical Director of the FMC), Asaba, Dr. Victor Osiatuma, for his patriotic approach towards uplifting the Centre to be ranked amongst the best in the country.


Ogheneyero described the appointment of Dr. Victor Osiatuma, who was appointed in 2015 as the Chief Medical Director (CMD), as a step in the right direction towards attaining the healthcare goal, as he is currently transforming the Centre into a model Federal hospital in the country, apparently fulfilling President Buhari’s infrastructural development goals.


Ogheneyero further called on the federal, state government and well meaning institutions to partner with, and support the Center, as building a standard healthcare system in the country should be the desire of everyone, even as he pledged that “the civil society community will from this moment work relentlessly toward advocating for the hospital and its management team as a way of sustaining the progress made thus far”.



The statement reads: “We are elated that Dr. Victor Osiatuma has strategically sorted out all union related issues that had made FMC Asaba prominent for strikes and periodic shutdown and also increased the output of the human capital through the employment of capable hands and training/retaining of the staff.


“In addition, Dr. Osiatuma has also made working in the hospital conducive as demonstrated by the quality infrastructural development witness in the course of this performance assessment. You will agree with me that FMC Asaba has become a model for others as the foresight and commitment by the current managers of the centre has yielded great results despite paucity of funds.


“Dr. Victor Osiatuma has handled outbreaks of diseases so intelligently that foreign health organizations and the government have come down to study the specific approach adopted by the hospital.


“We also have on ground, modern state of the art Medical equipment being deployed in the Centre for medical practice. These equipment include direct digital X–ray machines, Computed Tomography (CT scan) machine, endoscopy machine, laparoscopy machine for minimal access surgeries, Echocardiography machine, Electroencephalography machine, and many more.”

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Iheukwumere builds house for homeless man in Afikpo

The three-bedroom flat Iheukwumere built for Jaguar A House of Assembly aspirant in Afikpo, Ebonyi state, Mr Iheukwumere Okogwu Otu, has handed over a three-bedroom flat he built for a homeless man in Ezi Agbii, Ukpa, in Afikpo North local government area of Ebonyi state. Iheukwumere, who is the Special Adviser (SA) to Hon. Maria Ude Nwachi, member representing Afikpo North East Constituency in the Ebonyi State House of Assembly (EBHA), made the donation Tuesday during his birthday celebration. In an exclusive chat with Paul Okah Blog , Iheukwumere said that the kind gesture was borne out of the fact that the milk of kindness flowing in his veins could not allow him to bear the sight of the beneficiary, Mr Chukwu Oko (a.k.a Jaguar) being homeless. Iheukwumere said that, despite having limited resources, he dedicated his salary as SA to start the project in 2014, due to the fact that the beneficiary had been sleeping outside with his six children since 2007. He sa...

Lawyer begs EFCC, AGF, others for intervention in alleged fraud

An Abuja based legal practitioner and Managing Partner, Cosmic Legal Consult, Barrister Ifeanyi Cosmas Mamah, has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) over “the defrauding of unsuspecting Nigerians by alleged fraudsters operating a fraudulent online ponzi scheme known as myBONUS, with the alleged connivance of a microfinance bank, Kuda Microfinance Bank Ltd, headquartered in Lagos”. In the petition obtained by this medium Wednesday, dated February 1, 2021, with acknowledged copies by EFCC, NFIU, AGF dated February 2, 2021, Mamah gave a breakdown of how many Nigerians, including his clients, were duped by operators of the alleged ponzi scheme, under the guise of doubling their investments, with one Omotola Adanna as the founder/CEO of myBONUS, begging the petitioned agencies for urgent intervention in recovering the money for his clients and forestalling future occu...

Why Ebonyi State is absent at national sports festival- Umahi

The Ebonyi Government on Saturday gave reasons for the non participation of its athletes at the on-going National Sports Festival (NSF) in Abuja. Mr Charles Akpuenika, the state’s Commissioner for Sports and Youth Development, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the government was concentrating on locally-organised sporting events to unearth hidden talents. Akpuenika noted that the government organised several sporting events in 2018 as the talents discovered would be groomed to equitably represent the state in zonal and national competitions. “We have organised the inaugural David Umahi Tertiary Institutions Games (DUMTIGA) where several talents were discovered from the participating tertiary institutions in the state. “The state also organised the David Umahi Para-military games where security agencies to promote unity among the agencies and ensure the fitness of their officers. “The school sports competition which was last organised in 2008 is presentl...