Tony Okafor, Awka
A Cardiology Medical Center in Anambra State adjudged the best in Nigeria, will be upgraded to a teaching hospital, the management has said.
The aim, according to the management, was to use it in grooming budding medics and medical professionals in the country.
The medical facility situated at Irefi, Oraifite, in the Ekwusigo Local Government Area of the State is named Dame Irene Okwuosa Memorial Hospital.
It was set up by Sir Emeka Okwuosa, the Chairman of Oilserv group, to immortalize his late mother. The facility is a 27 -bed hospital, fashioned for primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare delivery systems.
Manager of the facility, Aghomishe Ogaga, while conducting Journalists around the facility on Tuesday, described the hospital as “the medical hope” of the South-East and Nigeria in general.
He said “This is a multi-million dollar investment in advanced medical science, with specialities in critical care management and automated surgery procedures.
” There are also adequate plans for transitioning to a teaching hospital in grooming young talents and medical professionals in Nigeria.
“The facility employs highly skilled medical experts in cardiology, nephrology, and critical care from all over the world. A critical health issue like open heart surgery is done here.
“Specialist doctors from the United States of America under Voom Foundation are assured to be on ground.
“The multi-million dollar cardiology equipment like digital cath laboratories, high definition 128 slides CT scan, digital x-ray systems, direct on bed oxygen delivery, automated ventilators, ICU unit, state-of-the-art theatres have all been installed
He said the facility would also be for kidney transplants and kidney dialysis, adding that the facility would take primary and tertiary healthcare services to doorsteps of people of the area.
Ogaga, further disclosed that the medical facility was prepared to collaborate and partner in open-heart surgeries with health institutions such as Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi; Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Awka and Federal Medical Center, Asaba, Delta State.
The media manager of the hospital, Sir Oseloka Offor, said the facility would be formally opened this month.