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  • FMC, OVWIAN: Delta Transfers Otor-Udu General Hospital To FG

    FMC, OVWIAN: Delta Transfers Otor-Udu General Hospital To FG

    Delta State Executive Council (EXCO) has approved the transfer of the General Hospital in Otor-Udu to the Federal Ministry of Health for the establishment of a Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Ovwian in Udu Local Government Area of the state.

    The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Joseph Onojaeme, disclosed this while briefing journalists on some of the far-reaching decisions reached in the health sector, during the State EXCO meeting presided over by Governor Sheriff Oborevwori.

    Dr. Onojaeme, while recalling that the Federal Government had approved the establishment of a Federal Medical Centre at Ovwian, disclosed that the Exco ratified Governor Oborevwori’s earlier approval for the transfer of the General Hospital, Otor-Udu to the Federal Government to facilitate establishment of the medical centre.

    He noted that the decision of the Federal Government to establish a Federal Medical Centre at Owvian in Udu Local Government Area, was a healthy and commendable development for the people and residents of Udu and environs.

    He said: “Sometime back, the Federal Government approved the establishment of a Federal Medical Centre at Ovwian; so, we are giving them the Otor-Udu General Hospital which is to be handed over to the Federal Ministry of Health.

    “The establishment of a Federal Medical Centre at Ovwian is a good development because Udu and environs actually need a specialist health centre to complement what we have already given at the Central Hospital, Warri”.

    According to him, Exco also approved the procurement and installation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines at Asaba Specialist Hospital, Central Hospital Warri, and the Delta State University Teaching Hospital, Oghara, in a strategic move to expand the frontiers of healthcare delivery in the state.

    “Also Exco graciously approved the procurement of three Magnetic Resonance lmaging scan machines. These machines are non-evasive machines that answer a lot of clinical questions ranging from excellent prostrate imaging, degenerating spine injuries, brain and other soft tissue imaging.

    “Before now, we don’t have a functioning MRI scan machine in the state. And the feature of this one that we are purchasing is a 1.5 Tesla MRI scan machine that is Helium- free.

    “The reason the one we have before now did not stand the test of time is because it is Helium -dependent and the money to refill helium is almost the amount to purchase a new one.

    “So, this one is good for the state and we went for product specific siemen German machine. It is good, it is going to last the state and it came with a two years maintenance warranty. So, it is a good one for the state,” the Commissioner said.

    Prior to the procurement of the MRI scan machines, he said, a lot of patients in the state were being referred to UBTH and LUTH, stressing that with the purchase of MRI machines, some of all the high-end imaging would be done in the state.

  • Nottingham Forest striker, Awoniyi makes surprise visit to Ilorin hospital

    Nottingham Forest striker, Awoniyi makes surprise visit to Ilorin hospital

    Super Eagles of Nigeria and Nottingham Forest of England striker, Taiwo Awoniyi, on Thursday, paid a surprise visit to the Ilorin General Hospital where he supported patients.

    The former Union Berlin of Germany marksman was received by the hospital’s Chief Medical Director (CMD), Dr. Bola Abdulkadir, into the facility.

    The Super Eagles’ striker was later conducted round different wards of the hospital where a female cancer patient was introduced to him for help.

    The Nottingham Forest striker after receiving briefs of the patient was told that the woman needed a complete dose of a particular injection which each cost N107,000 and paid for the remaining four doses.

    Another patient who needed N5,000 to get oxygen for one of her children received over N100,000 from the former Liverpool forward, while he also supported two old men with another N100,000.

    Awoniyi’s many donations came after he had presented envelopes containing cash to several patients at the hospital receiving various treatments.

    The Nottingham Forest striker also initiated several unaccounted donations at the hospital before departing for his usual off season training.

    While in the office of the CMD, Dr Bola Abdulkadir, thanked the Super Eagles striker for deeming it feat to visit the hospital to assist needy patients.

    The CMD posited that government alone cannot shoulder the responsibility of everything, hence the need for the well to do individuals to be of help.

    He solicited the support of the striker where he urged him to make donation to a foundation in the hospital where funds are accessed for the needy.

    Awoniyi had earlier visited the Emir of Ilorin and Chairman of Kwara Traditional Council, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, prayed for the player’s success in the upcoming season and beyond.

  • Gov Emmanuel inaugurates construction of 200-bed capacity General Hospital

    Gov Emmanuel inaugurates construction of 200-bed capacity General Hospital

    Gov Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom state has commenced the construction of a 200-bed capacity General Hospital at Oko Ita in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area of the state.

    Emmanuel promised the people of Ibiono Ibom that the general hospital, which would cater for the health needs of the residents, would be completed before the end of his administration in May 2023.

    The governor, who was represented by Prof. Augustine Umoh, Commissioner for Health, said this during the groundbreaking ceremony of the project in Oko Ita.

    “We want good health for all the residents as evident in the building of modern hospitals across the state.

    “It must have taken a while before we came to Ibiono Ibom and while waiting, something was cooking so, the hospital we want to give to Ibiono Ibom will be one of the best.

    “This hospital is going to be a two-story building and we are going to start with the mother and child section of the hospital.

    “We will be constructing the hospital in phases and certainly we will complete it in the life of this administration,” Emmanuel said.

    Earlier in his remarks, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr Patrick Eshiet, said the hospital was in collaboration with the State and Federal Governments through Sustainable Development Goals.

    Eshiet said that the facility when completed, would comprise units like the maternal and child health department, and administrative block.

    Other facilities in the hospital would include Accident and Emergency block (A&E), General Outpatient Department (GOPD), general theatre, male wards, female wards, mortuary and staff quarters.

    The member representing Ibiono Ibom in the House of Assembly, Mr Godwin Ekpo, thanked the governor for the groundbreaking in preparation to build the hospital.

    Ekpo appealed to the governor to ensure the completion of the project within the life span of the administration as promised.

    He said that the people of Ibiono Ibom had donated the land for government to build a general hospital since 1999, adding that the people were happy as the Emmanuel’s administration was the one to construct the hospital.

    He assured that the community would continue to support the governor’s completion agenda as the 2023 general elections were fast approaching.

  • Armed Robbers attack empty bullion van in Imo

    Armed Robbers attack empty bullion van in Imo

    Men of the underworld have attacked a bullion van returning to Owerri from Ogbor-Nguru in Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State.

    The robbery incident happened around the General hospital,Ogbor-Nguru around 1:30pm on Thursday, an eye witness Kennedy Onwunali told Journalists.

     

    According to him, he said the robbers fired gun shots at the van from Ahiara junction and forced it to somersault near the General Hospital

    He said the brave driver of a new generation bank escaped death with a bank official and a police escort when the van somersaulted a bit far from the assailants.

    He explained that the robbers were not able to loot the van because It was not carrying money.

    Michael Abattam the Imo state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), confirmed the incident and said the sketchy information at his disposal indicates the bullion van was returning after delivering money and was attacked by hoodlums.

    It was further gathered that the Police Area Command in Mbaise later launched a manhunt for the fleeing robbers, with the assurance that they would be arrested.

     

     

  • My son’s health condition has turned me into a beggar – Kuchi Kuchi singer cries for help

    My son’s health condition has turned me into a beggar – Kuchi Kuchi singer cries for help

    Nigerian singer, Joy Eseoghene Odiete, popularly known as, Jodie, a single mother of 6-year-old boy, Chinua, who lives with cerebral palsy, has said that her son’s health condition has turned her into a beggar.

     

    The Kuchi Kuchi singer, in a touching post, stressed that because of her son’s disability, she cannot keep a relationship as her “soul is shattered”.

     

    “My finances have been swallowed. My friends have abandoned me because I’m a beggar. My debts are new every morning,” she wrote.

     

    Jodie disclosed that special needs children don’t eat regular food and need special care and this drains finances of parents.

     

    She noted that the hospital where she had her son is to be blamed for his condition.

     

    According to her, she would have gone to a general hospital if she knew how things would turn out.

     

    She added that many have advised her to kill her child, Chinua, “because such children are sent to swallow up finances.”

     

    She said she has done all sorts of jobs to provide for her child but the expensive child care takes it all.

     

    She added that her son’s situation makes her fall ill “almost every 3 weeks due to stress”

     

    The singer asserted that her and other special needs parents have suffered alone for too long because they have been ashamed of the stigmatisation.

     

    “We are now shameless. We are now helpless. We have gone mad… We need a permanent solution,” she wrote.

     

    She then called on the government, non-governmental organisations and other authorities to provide a “permanent solution” for the care of special needs children so that parents will not have to go broke to care for their special needs kids.

     

    She concluded: “My head is heavy. My eyes hurt, because I cry every night. Don’t wait for singer of Kuchi Kuchi to die first before you do a memorial service while her child is left to suffer. Do not spend a dime when I’m dead.”

  • Police officer who deposited Vanguard reporter’s body in morgue identified

    Police officer who deposited Vanguard reporter’s body in morgue identified

    The police officer who deposited the badly mutilated body of late Vanguard reporter, Tordue Henry Salem in the morgue has been identified.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the mortician at the General Hospital, Wuse, Abuja, a middle aged man identified only as Mohammed, who admitted receiving the body of Tordue on October 13, 2021, identified the police officer.

    Mohammed identified the police officer as Isaiah Olumu from Utako Division, and said the body of Tordue was deposited on the sad day very late in the night.

    The mortician accused Olumu of not performing the duty of follow up on the corpse and reaching out to the family.

    Meanwhile, efforts to reach the police hierarchies to confirm the claim of the mortician proved abortive at the time of filing this report.

    He said: “We registered it (body) as unknown corpse because there was nothing to identify him. It was the next day I found his ID cards and other items. It was because of this I placed a call to the policeman to come down but he refused to come after I explained everything to him and he promised to come.

    “I saw the items while we were stitching the dismembered body. He brought the body in the night with an FRSC officer in a Road Safety vehicle. But when we were stitching the body, I found items, including the ID cards and immediately called the policeman.

    “That first time, he picked my call and we spoke. After informing him of the ID cards and the need to come pick them so as to inform the relatives, he stopped picking my calls, even after assuring me that he was coming”.

    On why it took the hospital so many days to disclose the information, he said: “It’s not our work to look for the relatives, it’s only that of the police.”

    On how the body was identified by the Intelligence Response Team, he said: “When the IRT came, they asked whether we had any unclaimed corpse here and I answered that we have many here and they asked again whether we received any body here on October 13.

    “When I answered in the affirmative, they now brought the picture of the person they were looking for and the name. I took them inside to see the body brought on the day and the ID cards we found on the body and they confirmed that it was the person they were looking for.”

    When informed that the family has distanced itself from the body in the mortuary as that of their son, he responded: “That doesn’t concern us, the policeman should come out and clarify the issue.

    “The policeman’s name is Isaiah Olumu from Utako Division. He brought the body in company of an FRSC officer. But while the policeman left his number behind, the Road Safety man didn’t”.

    Meanwhile, the management of the General Hospital, Wuse has exonerated itself from the delay in notifying the family and the public about the death of Tordue, whose body is currently in its morgue.

    Rather, the hospital asked the public to hold the police responsible as, according to it, only the police have the constitutional mandate to inform families of victims arising from accidents, dead or alive.

    Secretary of Wuse General Hospital, Mrs Hanatu Sani, told Vanguard that the hospital had no place in law to inform families of dead bodies brought in, saying it was the place of the police.

    Sani said the non-release of information on Tordue’s death was because of the inability of the policeman that brought the body to follow up.

    According to her, the police officer failed to show up, even when the hospital’s mortician informed him a day after the body was brought in that ID cards and other items had been found.

    While disclosing that there were many unclaimed dead bodies in the hospital’s morgue, Sani explained that the medical centre does not release bodies brought by the police to their families or relatives without authorization from the police.

    This, she explained, was to avoid trouble “because you may release a dead body to relatives and another set of relatives would come up saying the one with the body is a faction.”

    She said: “If the police did not come, there was nothing we could have done. We have a lot of unclaimed corpses here in the morgue. Most of them are victims of these hit-and-run drivers.

    “The law says after three months we can bury unclaimed bodies but here, we keep them even up to two years. It’s after that and we don’t see the relatives that we write to the commissioner of police, the judge and other relevant authorities to bury them.

    “The challenge we had in this case was the policeman that refused to come back after he brought the body. The mortician said he called him the very next day after he found the deceased’s particulars but he refused to come. He was calling him to come and check and see how he can contact the relatives but the policeman never showed up.”

  • Bandits storm General Hospital in Zamfara, capture health worker, one other

    Bandits storm General Hospital in Zamfara, capture health worker, one other

    Armed men suspected to be bandits terrorizing some parts of Zamfara State have invaded a General Hospital in Dansadau community in the Maru local government area of the State.

    TheNewsGuru gathered that the incident occurred on Friday when the assailants invaded the facility and kidnapped two health workers.

    The chairman of Nigerian Medical Association, Zamfara State chapter, Dr. Mannir Bature confirmed the incident to Channels Television.

    According to him, the bandits stormed the hospital with the intention of kidnapping medical doctors and nurses attached to the hospital but after a search, they only ended up in kidnapping a ward attendant and a patient’s relation.

    He further revealed that two other female staff of the hospital were wounded in the raid.

    Following the incident, Dr. Bature noted that the NMA Zamfara branch will hold an emergency state officers council meeting on Saturday 31st July 2021 at NMA Secretariat to deliberate on the issue.

    The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Mohammed Shehu was unable to take his calls and could not respond to text messages forwarded to him.

     

  • Bandits attack Zamfara General Hospital, kidnap two

    Bandits attack Zamfara General Hospital, kidnap two

    Armed bandits have attacked a General Hospital within the Dansadau community in the Maru local government area of Zamfara State.

    The attack which took place in the early hours of Friday led to the abduction of a health worker and one other individual.

    Confirming the attack, the chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association, Zamfara State branch Dr. Mannir Bature said the gunmen stormed the hospital and started looking for medical doctors and nurses and in the process abducted a ward attendant and a patient’s relation.

    He further stated that two other female staff of the hospital were wounded in the raid.

    Worried about the unfortunate incident, Dr. Bature noted that the NMA Zamfara branch will hold an emergency state officers council meeting on Saturday 31st July 2021 at NMA Secretariat to deliberate on the issue.

    Dansadau community has been in the news recently for several attacks by bandits, leading to the kidnapping of residents.

    The community has been reaching out to the Federal and State Governments, pleading that more security personnel be deployed to the troubled area.

  • JUST IN: Hours after kidnapping varsity students, bandits abduct two nurses on night duty at Kaduna General Hospital

    JUST IN: Hours after kidnapping varsity students, bandits abduct two nurses on night duty at Kaduna General Hospital

    Bandits suspected to be kidnappers have abducted two nurses working with Idon General Hospital in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

    The hospital is located less than a kilometer from a police checkpoint along the Kaduna-Kachia road in Idon.

    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that the incident which occurred in the early hours of Thursday comes barely 24 hours after several students were abducted and one person killed during an attack on Greenfield University along the Kaduna-Abuja highway in Chikun Local Government Area.

    The Chairman of Kajuru Local Government Area, Cafra Caino, who confirmed the incident said the bandits stormed the general hospital through the fence with deadly weapons and started shooting sporadically within the hospital premises.

    He explained that two nurses identified as Afiniky Bako and Grace Inkut who were on night duty were taken away by the bandits.

    The Chairman also said that plans were underway to boost security in the hospital and environs to avoid a future occurrence of such an attack.

    TNG reports that one staff member was killed and scores of students kidnapped in a Tuesday night attack on a private university, Greenfield University, located along the Kaduna–Abuja Highway in Chikun Local Government Area.

    Eyewitnesses said the gunmen stormed the university late at night and started shooting sporadically before they took some of the students away.

     

  • Delta doctors set date to commence strike over abduction of colleague at General Hospital

    Delta doctors set date to commence strike over abduction of colleague at General Hospital

    Members of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Delta state chapter are set to commence a phased strike over the abduction of their colleague, Dr. Wisdom Iboyitete, at the General Hospital, Ojobo in Burutu council area, last Monday.

    A statement signed by the NMA state chairman and secretary, Dr. Ekeneam Omo and Dr. Jude Ugbechie, said the association will commence the strike and a protest walk on Monday, June 8.

    The association called on Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, as well as security operatives in the state to intensify efforts to rescue their colleague.

    It further expressed worry over the silence of the state government on the incident, which it described as particularly traumatic for the family and other medical practitioners.

    Recall that Dr. Iboyitete, a Principal Medical Officer at the General Hospital, was kidnapped midnight Sunday by gunmen pretending to be patients.

    He was whisked to an unknown destination.

    The abductors had reportedly demanded for N10 million ransom, but later reduced the sum to N5 million on Wednesday.

    It will be noted that the National Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioners (NAGGMDP), in the state, on Thursday declared an indefinite strike as a result of the development.

    The statement reads, “In the early hours of Monday the 1st of June 2020, we received the sad news of the kidnap of our colleague Dr Wisdom Iboyitete at his workplace, General Hospital Ojobo in Burutu LGA, Delta state. He was abducted on the line of duty when he heeded an emergency call to attend to a patient, not knowing that the so called patients he rushed down to attend to were kidnappers.

    “We have had countless cases of kidnap of doctors in the past but for them to now come in the guise of being patients in need of emergency care in the wee hours of the night is to say the least the height of desecration of the noble profession by taking advantage of our humane disposition to duty. How will we answer to emergency calls at night when kidnappers now pose as patients?

    “The events of the last five days have been very traumatic for us and to the immediate family in particular. The silence of the state government, the Ministry of Health and the Hospitals Management Board since the incident occurred is worrisome.

    “This unfortunate incident has brought to the fore once again, the need for government to provide adequate security in our hospitals. In addition to kidnapping, we have had incessant cases of harassment and assault of healthcare workers by patients, patients’ relatives and host communities within the hospital premises while discharging their duties.

    “We have observed with keen interest the resolve of the National Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioners (NAGGMDP) to withdraw their services indefinitely until our colleague is released unconditionally. We wish to state that this is in congruence with the provisions of the physicians oath we swore to, which enjoined every doctor to attend to their own health, well being and abilities in order to provide care of the highest standard.

    “As an association, the welfare and security of our members remain sacrosanct. We therefore wish to express our total support of the actions taken so far by the doctors in state hospitals to draw the attention of the State Government, Ministry of Health, the Hospitals Management Board as well as the security agencies of the need to speed up efforts to secure the release of our colleague from captivity unhurt and improve on the security within the hospitals to forestall a reoccurrence of such unfortunate incident.

    “The Delta State NMA is currently mobilising her members to commence phased withdrawal of service and peaceful protest walk from Monday 8th of June 2020.

    “We are however optimistic that His Excellency will prevail on the security agencies to do the needful to ensure the release of Dr. Iboyitete from the clutches of his kidnappers.”