Governor Sullivan Chime
Enugu State Government has shut down ten privately owned hospitals in the state for declining standards, inadequacy of health personnel and use of obsolete and non-functional equipment.
The state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Chuks Ugwoke, who announced
this while briefing the pressmen at the end of the State Executive also
disclosed that the state government had signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with a North American Company, San Carlos of Mexico
for the establishment of Pineapple fruit juice processing factory in the
state.
He gave the names of the clinics closed by the task force set up by the
state Ministry of Health to monitor the standard of practice by private
health facilities in the state as Moonlight clinic 81 Agbani Road,
Enugu, Chief Dennis Okafor Memorial hospital and maternity, Ogbete
Avenue off Kings Way Road, Zirank hospital and maternity, 167 Nike Road
Abakpa Nike and Mount Olive Specialist hospital, Abakpa Nike, all in
Enugu.
Others are the Royal Diagnostic Centre, 200 Agbani road Awkunanaw,
Spring of Live Specialist hospital, 106 Agbani Road, Merit Laboratory,
151 Nike Road Abakpa Nike, Somadina hospital, 146 Nike Road ,Abakpa Nike
and Divine Dividend Medical Centre, No 5 Udo Club road Gariki
Awkunanaw, Enugu.
According to the Commissioner, the exercise is an ongoing one and would
cover more than 450 registered private health facilities all over the
17 local government areas of the state to ensure that their owners
comply with the standard set up by government and enable those seeking
health care services get the best from the institutions.
He said strict sanction would be imposed on offenders who reopen their clinics without satisfying the laid down requirements.
The fruit juice project the commissioner disclosed, would be executed
by the state government and the North America Company at 46 per cent
ratio. Already, the State Executive Council has approved the sum of
N965,320.02 representing its forty percent contribution for the purchase
of agricultural and construction equipment for the take off of the
project.
According to Ugwoke, the North American Company would in turn
contribute 60 per cent of the sum which would take care of the purchase
of bulldozer, loaders vibro compacter, tractors, harrows and other
farming equipment for the project.
The commissioner who was accompanied by his Transport and Agriculture counterpart, Professor Martin Anikwe and Chuka Utazi, and SPA Rural Development, Mr. Dons Udeh, said the factory when established would create jobs and usher in well organised farming system in the state.
Ugwoke told the press that the council also gave approval for the development of raw surface water supply from Attavu River in Umueze Awkunanaw in Nkanu West local government area by the state Ministry of Environment and Korean firm’
The commissioner who was accompanied by his Transport and Agriculture counterpart, Professor Martin Anikwe and Chuka Utazi, and SPA Rural Development, Mr. Dons Udeh, said the factory when established would create jobs and usher in well organised farming system in the state.
Ugwoke told the press that the council also gave approval for the development of raw surface water supply from Attavu River in Umueze Awkunanaw in Nkanu West local government area by the state Ministry of Environment and Korean firm’
Under the programme, the pilot project which will be replicated in the
17 local government areas of the state would involve collecting water
from an existing river and piping it to treatment facility for advanced
water treatment.
For the project when completed would help satisfy water demand of the
people, improve hygienic and environmental health through safe drinking
water, reduce water borne diseases.
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