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Akwa Ibom government
sources said the former governor preferred to seek medical help overseas than
do so at a N30 billion hospital he opened shortly before leaving office in May.
Unveiling
the facility in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital, in May 2015, Mr. Akpabio had
told Nigerians the hospital was of world-class specialist standard with
ultra-modern medical facilities that would attract medical tourism to state.
He
said the hospital was equipped with “640 CT scanners, digital mammography, endoscopy
surgery, highly sophisticated intensive care units and medical gas plants with
fully automated laboratories”.
“We
lose billions of dollars every year to medical trips abroad. We have also lost
a lot of people, not because we don’t have the expertise in the country,” Mr.
Akpabio said during the commissioning of the hospital.
“We
needed a hospital that can run at international standard. We also decided to
have a hospital that would answer to the needs of Nigerians in terms of
advanced health management. And that was why we built the Akwa Ibom Specialist
Hospital,” he said.
He said the hospital was
higher than a teaching hospital, and that it was a “Quaternary hospital”. The
governor said the entire hospital system was hooked up to the global system for
best practice.
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