Akwa Ibom Govt. procures 5bn worth of equipment for Specialist Hospital

Akwa Ibom Govt. procures 5bn worth of equipment for Specialist Hospital

[html]Akwa Ibom Government has purchased medical equipment worth N5 billion for Ibom Specialist Hospital to boost healthcare delivery in the state.
   
   
   
       
       
           
               
                   

Akwa Ibom Government has purchased medical equipment worth N5 billion for Ibom Specialist Hospital to boost healthcare delivery in the state.

               
           
               
                   

Dr Dominic Ukpong, state’s Commissioner for Health, disclosed this when members of the Divine Mandate Campaign Team visited the Paramount Ruler of Eket, Edidem Etim Abia, on Friday in Eket.

               
           
               
                   

According to him, the state has been paying N400 million quarterly to offset bills for the medical equipment in the hospital.

               
           
               
                   

Ukpong, however, said that the hospital was not completed before it was inaugurated the previous administration.

               
           
               
                   

“We are paying the money now and the hospital had been inaugurated but not yet completed.

               
           
               
                   

“It was supposed to be ground floor, first, second and third floors.

               
           
               
                   

“The previous administration did the ground and first floors and left the second and third floors uncompleted. It is not yet plastered but was inaugurated,” Ukpong said.

               
           
               
                   

He noted that Ibom Specialist Hospital, was on August 8, 2018 given out to Clinotech Turnkey to manage for the state, adding