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.

Taiwo Joseph     YAKOOYO     IsDB     Lanre Olosunde     Kwara State Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Bursary     Anilelerin     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Bilikisu Gambari     Tescom.kwarastate.gov.ng     IHS     Afolasade Opeyemi Kemi     Ibikunle Ogunleye     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Okedare     Nurudeen Mohammed     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     David Oyedepo     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Lateef Alagbonsi     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Funmilayo Oniwa     Mohammed Danjuma     Yomi Adeboye     Talaka Parapo     T And K FOODS     Pakata Development Association     Bola Olukoju     Kayode Alabi     Amina El-Imam     Sobi Hill     Ibraheem Adeola Katibi     Abdulhakeem Amao     Alumni Association Of The Federal Polytechnic Offa     Tunji Moronfoye     Amos Bajeh     Makama Of Kaiama     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     MATTA Girls Foundation     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Okoolowo     Senate Presidency     Florence Saraki     Abdulahi Abubakar Bata     Olusegun Adeniyi     Abiodun Oyedepo     Risikat Lawal     Alore     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Ahman Patigi     Yekeen Alabi     Jamiu Oyawoye     Sheriff Shagaya     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Mohammed Haruna     Jide Ashonibare     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Madawaki Of Ilorin     Isin     Abiodun Abdulkareem     Abdulganiyu AbdulAzeez     Yusuf Mubarak     CELF     Ubandawaki     Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency     Doyin Agbamu     Adedipe     Mopelola Abdulmaliq-Bashir     Adewuyi Funmilayo     Share-Tsaragi     Yakub Lai Gobir     Toyin Falola     CACOVID Palliatives     Tosho Yaqub     Elesie Of Esie    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Nigeria Computer Society     Alanamu     Saliu Mustapha     TETFUND     KWACOBPA     Bond     UNILORIN Alumni Association     Mohammed Saidu     Wahab Agbaje     UTME     Is\'haq Modibbo Kawu     Ishola Abdullahi     Mujtabah Bature     TVC Female National Debate     Hamid Bobboyi     Makama     LAK Jimoh     Rashidi Yekini     Elelu     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Halimah Perogi     Bola Sagaya     Christopher Odetunde     Bamidele Adegoke     Lateef Alagbonsi     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Rex Olawoye     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Salihu Ajibola Ajia     Abatemi Usman     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Adamu Attah     Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Adesoye     Gbugbu     Kwara State Governor     Ubandoma     Arandun     Aminu Ado Bayero     Baba-Isale     Dagbalodo     John Kehinde Salako     Kunle Suleiman     Kolawole Bashirat     Lanre Issa-Onilu     Senior Special Assistant On Student Affairs     Olajumoke Monsura Gafar     Bashirat Bola Bello     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     LEAH Charity Foundation     Matthew Okedare     Saidu Yaro Musa     3MTT     Ajidagba     Transition Implementation Committee     Aliyu U. Tilde     Albert Ogunsola     Jaiz Bank     Senate     Tafida Of Ilorin     Kawu     Hauwa Nuru     Segun Adeniyi     Saheed Alakoso     Budo-Egba     V.O. Abioye     Kazeem Oladepo     Sobi Hill     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Valsolar Consortium     Sunset Workers     Agboola Abdulraheem     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Khairat Gwadabe     Lateef Ademola Olatunji     Yusuf Lawal