'We are going to trim down the number of unentitled people. Unentitled patients are bringing constraints to us and that's all.'
in Abuja may have to look elsewhere as the presidency on Thursday announced plans to restrict public access to the facility.
The SHMC received one of its lowest budgetary allocations in 2019 after gulping almost N10 billion in the previous four years. Mr Arabi, who has now been moved to the humanitarian ministry, said the overstretching of facilities at the centre by patients is some of the challenges it has been going through.“Nobody was charging anyone for any services and relying on appropriation means we will depend on subvention when it comes to running the centre,” he noted.During Thursday’s workshop, Mr Umar said the presidency has restated its decision to bar the public from using the facilitates.
“In an effort to upturn this ugly trend and revive its past glory, the State House Management reversed the Medical Centre profile granted the facility, to its original status of Clinic, in order to limit the number of patients it handles and also maintain the original purpose it was created for.” President Buhari’s wife, Aisha, at the time, accused the hospital management of not taking care of the facility in spite of huge budgetary allocations.
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