Dirisu Yakubu
The Niger State Government says it has commenced expansion and remodelling work on the Ibrahim Babangida Specialist Hospital in Minna, the state capital.
The approval to expand the state-owned tertiary medical facility established in 1995, which has not witnessed expansion except for the VIP wing, was given by Governor Umaru Bago
This was made known in a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to Bago, Ibrahim Bologi, on Monday.
“The remodeled hospital will boast a general outpatient department, patient’s waiting area, intensive care unit, accident and emergency unit, VIP section, trauma centre, doctors quarters, cafeteria and completion of a retention wall,” the statement partly read.
It also added that additional supplies of medical equipment would include, “Endoscopy instruments for lower tract, endoscopy tower, monitor, camera head, 30-degree rigid telescope, resectoscope (bipolar and monopolar), diathermy pedal, endoscopy graspers, and biopsy forceps.”
The statement added, “Before now, parts of IBB Hospital’s equipment were outdated, with crumbling structures and inadequate facilities across its wards.
“The hospital now is beginning to wear a new look, with the intervention of Gov Bago.
“While Gov Bago’s administration is already converting the old Shiroro Hotel into the state’s first University Teaching Hospital, it also recognised the imperative to remodel the IBB Hospital to a global standard.”
According to the governor, this would be achieved by equipping it with state-of-the-art facilities such as computed tomography, scan machines, hemodialysis machines, fully automated laboratory machines, echocardiography machines, ventilators, defibrillators, theatre operating lamps, operating tables, ultrasound machines, infusion pumps, and digital x-ray machines.
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