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Borno refuses to open hospital until Obasanjo visits

Started by NewEte, February 13, 2007, 11:08:09 PM

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NewEte

Imagine this foolishness! Isn't this absurd?
So sick people have to wait for 6 months even though
an hospital is completed and ready for operation
because Obasanjo has not showed up to commission it.
Is it simply that common sense has left everybody's
head in Nigeria?
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Borno refuses to open hospital until Obasanjo visits
By Abdullahi Bego, Maiduguri

Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007/Muharram 26, 1428 A. H



The new General Hospital Bulunkutu, Maiduguri, yet to
be put to use over six months after completion.

The government of Borno state has refused to open a
new 300-bed general hospital to the public for six
months.

The Ali Modu Sherrif led administration said it would
not open the new facility in Maiduguri until the
president officially opened it himself.
The new Maiduguri General Hospital was finished in
July at a cost of over N300 million. It has been
equipped and is ready to go, according to the
government, but sick people will not be able to use it
until the president cuts a tape at the door, the
governor has said.
Two other 100 bed hospitals outside Maiduguri may also
be kept shut until the president visits, Daily Trust
can reveal.
The state government said it was "normal practice" to
prevent sick people from using a brand new hospital
until it is "commissioned" -officially opened by the
president.
The State's health commissioner, Dr. Asabe Vilita
Bashir told Daily Trust in a telephone chat yesterday
that the ministry was officially informed of the
postponement of the president's visit only yesterday.
She said the government is yet to decide whether to
open the gates of the hospital to the public or again
wait for another commissioning date.
She said: "It is normal practice not to open a public
building until it has been commissioned. I cannot say
what will happen at this stage. We have many options.
But it is something that would be decided by the
government soon."
The facility was due for commissioning by the
president around the end of July last year, but the
postponement of the visit at the time led officials of
the health ministry to keep it under lock and key as a
new date for the commissioning was decided.
Construction works on the hospital and the supply of
equipment were completed in July last year. The
presidency and the Borno State government later agreed
to arrange Obasanjo's visit for last Monday, where he
would commission the new general hospital and two
100-bed hospitals also built by the Ali Sherrif
administration in Askira-Uba and Chibok local
government areas of the state, among other projects.
The visit was, however, cancelled again just a day
before the presidential plane touched down at the
Maiduguri International Airport for as yet undisclosed
reasons.
Many residents of the city are unhappy that the state
government had not opened the hospital.
Residents say the State Specialist Hospital built in
the 1950's, which the newly built general hospital in
Maiduguri is meant to decongest, is overstretched and
its facilities are old and ageing.
Patients also complain of poor sanitary conditions at
the State Specialist Hospital, observing that the
opening of the new general hospital in Bulunkuttu,
Maiduguri will help improve healthcare delivery
services, especially in the State capital.
Governor Ali Sherrif himself has said at the start of
the building project that the new general hospital is
designed to reduce the burden on the Specialist
Hospital of having to cater for so many people within
and outside Maiduguri.
It is still unclear whether the current postponement
of the president's visit will lead to further delay in
opening the new hospital and the others built in
Askira-Uba and Chibok.
The postponement of the Obasanjo visit also affected
the commissioning of state-of-the- art equipment
installed at the University of Maiduguri Teaching
Hospital (UMTH) under the Federal Government-VAMED
modernization programme.
However, the president is said to have asked the
Secretary to the Federal Government (SGF), Chief Offot
Ekaette to commission the VAMED project at the UMTH
today (Tuesday).

http://www.dailytru st.com/news1b. htm


Dan-Borno

 ??? Dambula!, yau dara taci gida, and it seems i am the only person from Borno in this forum. 
However, who is to be blamed? Borno State Government or Presidency?
"My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for" - Tupak

HUSNAA

which one concern presidency for this matter. suppose obj were to kick the bucket b4 opening the hospital nko? dem go keep it close till the courts settle the wrangling between atiku and pdp then he will come and open or ken nnamani will come and open in the interim, or maybe an interim care taker is not good enough? Lol! This is the height of incompetent bureaucracy!!
Ghafurallahi lana wa lakum

MySeLf

Sharar Ete ta Arewa kuke kulawa?
Baitaba kawo ta chan kudu, da yammaci ba, Duk da cewar sun fimu kazanta.

Kai Mr ete kasar Yarabawa mai suke ciki ne?..... :P
!!!........................I STAND 4 ISLAM..........................!!!

HUSNAA

Ba bayerabe bane. Dan  kudanci kudu ne. Lol da dai baki ambaci sunan sa ba. Yanzu zai hau sama da kasa ya fara zarge zarge tunda ba turanci bane. :)
Ghafurallahi lana wa lakum

Dan-Borno

Sannun ku da aiki - Aunty Husna da Myself:

Quote from: HUSNAA on February 15, 2007, 12:11:01 PM
which one concern presidency for this matter

That has always been the tradition.

Quote from: HUSNAA on February 15, 2007, 12:11:01 PM
Lol! This is the height of incompetent bureaucracy!!

???  ???  ???
"My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for" - Tupak

MySeLf

Quote from: HUSNAA on February 15, 2007, 02:01:21 PM
Ba bayerabe bane.

Wanne yarene kenan?


Quote from: HUSNAA on February 15, 2007, 02:01:21 PM
da dai baki ambaci sunan sa ba. Yanzu zai hau sama da kasa ya fara zarge zarge tunda ba turanci bane. :)

Inna sane! So nake yaita kwalo ido yana tunanin menene wannan......Hahaha!!! lol
Aikin tafiya neman mai fassara masa yasame shi kenan...... Hehehe!!!
!!!........................I STAND 4 ISLAM..........................!!!

lionger