A public affairs analyst has lauded the complementary roles of the management of the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital UATH Gwagwalada, under the leadership of Professor Bissala Ekele, while demanding the quick completion of the abandoned General Hospital located in Gwagwalada, to ease the traffic and congestion occasioned by lack of secondary health care facilities in the area.
Abubakar Yusuf urged the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory to urgently give priority to the moribund General Hospital project that is now harbouring criminal elements in the area.
He says there is no justification for abandoning the project, while other local governments areas VC n FCT had been completed and put to use.
“With General Hospital in Kwali, Kuje, Bwari, Abaji, AMAC and other adjoining locations, Gwagwalada should not be an exception, saying this is a naked denial of health care facilities in FCT amid COVID.”
“The University of Abuja Teaching Hospital UATH and the Town Clinic located in the town were already overstretched by the lack of General Hospital in Gwagwalada, that is supposed to serve as secondary health institutions, saying the Primary Health Care PHC and Tertiary Health Care THC roles of the current facilities are already threatened.”
He advised the two existing facilities to implement their areas of jurisdiction, to encourage the government to complete the abandoned General Hospital which is 70% completed, before being abandoned.
“It is worrisome that facilities provided in the new General Hospital abandoned for over ten years have been vandalized and taken over by homeless people, who had converted the edifice to personal homes.”
He appealed to the two FCT ministers to take the health care of the residents seriously, particularly with the upsurge of people into the nation’s city.
“The University of Abuja Teaching Hospital UATH Gwagwalada’s remodeling and renovation template is bridging the gap of the dearth of health care facilities not only in Gwagwalada, but the entire federal capital territory and its adjoining states.”
