Reps To Revive Moribund UniIlorin Hospital For Lokoja Varsity

Date: 2021-11-26

The House of Representatives has passed for second reading, a Bill seeking to convert and rename the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital Annex (Comprehensive Health Centre) Ihima, Kogi State to Federal University Lokoja Teaching Hospital (FULTH).

The Bill also provides for the establishment of the FULTH Management Board and other related matters.

The Member representing Adavi/Okehi federal constituency of Kogi State, Hon Joseph Asuku Bello, who sponsored the Bill noted that the piece of legislation seeks to give life and return functionality to a Federal Government health facility in his constituency.

According to him, the facility has gone comatose, after it was established with the best of intentions at a huge cost to the federal government.

According to the lawmaker, the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital Annex also known as Comprehensive Health Centre Ihima was established in 1987 and was at that time well-staffed and equipped with facilities and infrastructure to enable it to perform the role of rendering comprehensive health services, not only to its immediate communities which include Okene town but also to the entire land area which now constitute Kogi State.

But over time, due to inadequate funding and other administrative and logistic issues resulting from state creation, which consequently situate the facility in Kogi State rather than Kwara State that hosts the parent Teaching Hospital at Ilorin, the facility became a shadow of itself.

"looking generally abandoned and rendering skeletal services with little or no motivation for staff and the physical structures including buildings, medical equipment, vehicles, amongst others in the general state of disrepair and nonfunctional.

"Another major reason is to enable the medical department in the university to have a teaching hospital attached to it, to enable accreditation under N.U.C standards,"he said. Asuku added that "the proximity of the Federal Medical Centre inLokoja has made it difficult for my Constituents to access good medical services in cases of emergency which has led to loss of lives at some points."

After the passage of the Bill for a second reading, it was consequently referred to the House Committee on Health Services for further legislative action.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Bursary     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     Bola Sagaya     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Olatunji Moronfoye     Onikijipa     Mutawali     Oyun     Babajide Ajayi     Adebara     Clara Nwachukwu     Baboko     Ajia-Bako     YAKOOYO     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Hajj     Read With Me     Oko Erin     Raliat Islamic Foundation     Rafiu Ajakaye     Ayedun     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     Baba Issa Awoye     IPSAS     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Bola Magaji     Nigeria Computer Society     Sabo-Oke     JMK Construction Company Limited     Yunus Oniboki     Abdulganiyu Oladosu     Omotoso     TESCOM     Khairat Gwadabe     Timothy Akangbe     Maja     Iqra Books     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Saadu Alanamu     Raji AbdulRasaq     Temi Kolawole     Kwarareports     Aliyu Sabi     Buhari     Abraham Ojo     Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Ibrahim Abikan     LEAH Charity Foundation     Arandun     Tunji Folami     Emir Of Lafiagi     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Rachael Obisesan     Belgore     Adegoke Bamidele     Abdulhakeem Amao     Ahman Pategi University     Awili Pedro     Jani Ibrahim     SSA Youth     Ubandawaki     Prince Mahe Abdulkadir     Muhammadu Buhari     Salihu Alhaji Musa     Shuaibu Yaman     Muritala Awodun     Azeez Salawu     Kulende     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa     Malete     Sebastine Obasi     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Lanre Issa-Onilu     Olajumoke Monsura Gafar     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Ajuloopin     UNILORIN Alumni    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Simeon Ajibola     Mohammed Saidu     Sa\'adu Salau     Sunday Fagbemi     Reuben Paraje     Idris Garuba     Hassanat Bello     Royal FM     Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Abikan     Suleiman Abubakar     Haleeman Salman     Victor Gbenga Yusuf     Abdulrasaq Alaro     Bukola Ajikobi     Summit University     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Oniye     Wale Oladepo     Kulende     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo     Unicontinental Construction Company     Tunde Yusuf     Ilorin Emirate     Allocation     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Baba Issa Awoye     Senate President     Aisha Buhari     Abdulrazaq Sanni     Zulkifli Ibraheem     Aminat Ahmed     Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     Eleja     SAPZ Project     Akorede     Bolaji Abdullahi     Emir Of Lafiagi     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Amina Susa\'a De Ahmed     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     Hamza Usman     Saidu Isa     Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Abdulrazaq Magaji     Ita-Ore     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     LABTOP     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Omoniyi Ayinla     Ibrahim Abdullahi     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Aso Ofi     CCB     Yekini Adio     TVC Female National Debate     Charcoal     KWIRS     Sa\'adu Salahu     Oloye     Ladi Hassan     Muritala Olarewaju     Mary Kemi Adeosun     Toyin Falola     Baba Issa     Olatunji Ayeni     Maja     New Model Police Station     KWATMA     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Third Estate     Abubakar Lah     ASMAU PLAZA     James Kolo     Wahab Egbewole     Young Progressives Party