Health minister pays unscheduled visit to National Hospital

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Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has said that the country will establish seven more cancer centres in the next one year.

Adewole, according to a statement signed by the Director of Press and Public Relations, Boade Akinola (Mrs.), spoke yesterday when he paid an unscheduled visit to the National Hospital, Abuja.

Prof. Adewole particularly inspected the Accident and Emergency wards, Delivery suite and the Magnetic Reno Cent Imaging Unit under construction, at the Cancer Centre.

The minister, the statement further said, informed the hospital management and staff that the Federal Government would work towards an efficient health care service delivery.

Impressed with the level of care in the 350-bed Cancer Centre, the minister said that Nigeria will work towards launching seven more cancer centres in the next one year.

He urged the CMD to showcase the various services available in the hospital to Nigerians so as to cope with the medical tourism which is draining the resources of most patients who seek medical services abroad.

The minister, who was conducted round the hospital by the Chief Medical Director (CMD), Dr. Audu Momoh, said that the purpose of his visit was to access the efficiency of staff and the effectiveness of the health care facility.

The minister, who expressed satisfaction with the state of the hospital, attitude of staff to work and the tidy nature of the premises, said the Federal Government would work towards an efficient health care service delivery.

Responding, the CMD said the minister’s unscheduled visit was important to the hospital in that it would go a long way to make the staff know “it is no longer business as usual.”

Source: The Nation

Prosper

Cancer centers that rich Nigerians will never visit for medical treatment. Rather rich Nigerians seek medical treatment overseas.

Nigeria don't need seven substandard unequipped cancer centers. What we need is just a single world standard hospital that is equal in standard to hospitals in UK, USA and other world powers. This will halt the exodus of Nigerians and politicians seeking medical treatment overseas.

Prosper

The health minister won't even go to the cancer centers that he established when he has cancer and needs medical treatment. I am hundred percent sure he will fly overseas for a professional medical treatment.
So tell me, who is deceiving who?