Niger remodels state specialist hospital
Governor Umaru Bago of Niger State has commenced expansion and remodelling work on the Ibrahim Babangida Specialist Hospital, located in Minna, the state capital.
The IBB Specialist Hospital, a state-owned tertiary medical facility was established in 1995.
Except for the VIP wing, it has not witnessed a further expansion until the current administration’s intervention.
A statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to Bago, Ibrahim Bologi, on Monday, quoted the governor as saying that upon completion, “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.”
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The statement further read, “Before now, parts of IBB Hospital’s equipment were outdated, with crumbling structures and inadequate facilities across its wards.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.”
This, the governor added, 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.
