Guardian

THE new Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, Prof Tony Igwegbe has disclosed that key services of the institution would be relocated to its Okofia permanent site.

Also of priority is having a Specialty Clinic, General Out-patient Department (OPD), well-equipped Surgical and Obstetrics wards, as well as completing the fencing of the new site.

The CMD said because the present temporal site was already choked up, the facility now reject patients, while some Emergency Ward patients sleep on the floor.

Speaking at a special reception, held in his honour by the management of Cutix Plc, at the Conv-aj Centre, Nnewi, Anambra state, Prof Igwegbe said he sees the movement to the new site as a challenge and wants to build the key internal road network of the new site that have remained abandoned for years.

He appealed to philanthropists to assist the institution to become a first-class referral hospital where people from all parts of the world would also flock to for specialised medical tour.

The retired founding chairman of Cutix Plc, Chief Ajulu Uzodike who was among those that built and donated structures with which the teaching hospital took off on inception, appealed to the state government to assist them with the access road into the permanent site.

Uzodike, a former boss of the Manufacturers’ Association and Chamber of Commerce, lamented that the headache of the hospital is akin to all agencies that depend on the government for sustenance. But believed that with the renewed interest of the President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in the South-East geo-political zone and welfare of Nigerians, things would change soon.

A former CMD of the hospital and chairman of the occasion, Prof Okey Mbonu praised the resilience of the succeeding chief executives who have kept the dream alive and well.

A business mogul Chief Emeka Offor pledged to use his contacts and reach to attract more facilities, endowments, grants and donations to the hospital.