Sick IMSUTH
The chairman of the panel, Prof. Frank Akpuaka had briefed the governor on the scope of their work including the challenges they met on ground.
But he did not just stop at that. He extrapolated “if IMSUTH is sick, then the entire health sector of the state is in trouble”. He could not have put it in a better way. And that is precisely where we enter the fray. That administration selected the site and built both the teaching hospital and the School of Nursing from the scratch. Before Udenwa exited office, the hospital was firmly on ground as full services had commenced.
If a government could pay scant attention to the affairs of a teaching hospital, its overall disposition to healthcare delivery would no longer be in doubt. It was during that period the exodus of qualified health professionals and some of the problems listed by the panel began to manifest. In the eight years Okorocha held sway, not even one of these hospitals was completed and delivered to provide the services required of them.
They stood for practically nothing in the subsisting emergency created by the corona virus COVID-19 pandemic. Imo would not have been contending with bed spaces if investments committed to those projects did not go down the drains. Yet, this is a hospital that trains doctors, a referral hospital that should be on first line charge of government’s investments in the health sector.
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