The Federal Neuro Psychiatric Hospital, Sokoto has applauded President Muhammadu Buhari for the Federal Government funded interventions that are yielding positive impact on service delivery in the hospital.
The Medical Director of the hospital, Professor Shehu Sale, made the commendation during interview with the newsmen in Sokoto noting that Federal Government had funded new major projects in its interventions.
Sale, a Consultant Psychiatrist also commended the Minister of State for Health, Senator Adele Mamora, for the support toward achieving the successes in the hospital.
He listed the projects to include; construction and equipping of intensive care unit, construction and equipping of molecular laboratory, construction and equipping of isolation centre and procurement of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
He said that the completed projects are already impacting positively on service delivery and protection of both staff and patients of the hospital.
According to him, the projects would also deliver improved healthcare to the hard-to-reach communities in line with the Federal Government’s commitment to the provision of Essential Healthcare Services.
The Medical Director added that beside detection of infections, the laboratory is equipped with fully automated Chemistry, Immunology, Haematology and Microbiology equipment that would be used to carry out supportive testing required in the treatment of patients on Isolation and those in critical care.
He also explained that the newly constructed Intensive Care Unit (ICU) had been equipped with the state-of-the-art medical equipment to attend to the care of both Paediatric and Adult patients requiring intensive care services.
He however said the Isolation Centre also newly constructed in the hospital is meant for the isolation of patients with suspected and confirmed cases of highly transmissible infections like Lassa fever, Ebola and others.
Professor Sale noted that the intervention had provided the hospital with large quantity of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), adding: “We now have enough of PPE for staff to use daily”.
He further explained that the recent interventions had prevented brain drain in the hospital as well as daily complains of lack of registered medical staff in the hospital.
He stressed that hospital had diverse expertise with modern equipment providing efficient services at affordable rates when compared with other facilities.
The Medical Director reiterated commitment to continue rendering efficient services to Nigerians and commended Ministers for Health for their support in ensuring increased hospitals performance.
He expressed his renewed commitment to ensuring that the Hospital reaches even greater heights.
He said Federal Government has awarded another contract for the construction of Regional Women and Children Drug Dependence Treatment Center in the hospital which will cater for diverse health needs of these vulnerable sub- population.
According to him, in order to ensure accountability and transparency, the hospital is currently digitizing all it’s service centers and will soon operate a paper-less transaction at all points within the hospital.
” Also to address the challenges of irregular electricity supply to the hospital, alternative power supply using solar inverters have been installed at the administrative building, out-patient department,medical records department, Pharmacy,intensive care unit, isolation center,molecular laboratory and some of the hospital wards ‘‘ Sale explained.
According to the Medical Director, the effort has not only improved service delivery but has reduced tremendously, the expenses on the generators and purchase of diesel to power the hospital.
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