By Francis Onoiribholo / Bureau Chief Benin
The House Standing Committee on Health of the Edo State House of Assembly has brought respite to the management of the state Hospital Management Board when it donated the sum of N100,000 to the authorities of the Central Hospital to revamp the children ward which has not been in use for several months.
The donation by the committee was informed by the disheartening accounts of Hon. Elizabeth Ativie, a member of the Committee on Health, who recently brought her mother for treatment at the Central Hospital but was surprised when she noticed the hospital was rejecting patients and (referring them to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital owing to paucity of funds) to fix some structural and plumbing problems currently affecting the provision of quality services at the Hospital.
The members of the House Committee on Health on an unscheduled visit to the Central Hospital to obtain first hand information on the problems mitigating against the operations of the Hospital, were taken on an inspection tour round all the wards in the hospital from the Female Ward which is the only functional ward to the abandoned children ward and the male medical ward which is no longer in use owing to the threats of the structure caving in based on the report of the Engineer handling structural defects at the Hospital.
According to the information provided by the Medical Director of the Hospital, Dr. (Mrs.) Edith Kayode Iyasere and the Permanent Secretary to the Hospital Management Board, Dr. Ofure Eboreme, the problems mitigating against effective operations of the hospital were roofed in the bureaucratic bottlenecks in obtaining funds to fix plumbing problems at the children and female ward which each required forty-one thousand naira (N41,000.00) and Eighty-one thousand naira as the
Hospital according to the Medical-Director does not receive overhead impress to effect immediate repairs.
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