FCT minister orders immediate opening of Karu General Hospital

THE Federal Capital Territory Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has directed that the 135-bed Karu General Hospital be opened for immediate use by the public.

He further directed that the hospital should immediately commence General Out Patient Department (GOPD) services, Antenatal services and the mortuary be opened to the public, in addition to the Behavioral Medicine Unit that had since been operational in the hospital.

He said the coming on board of the Karu General Hospital is expected to take enormous pressure off the Asokoro District Hospital, as well as Nyanya General Hospital and Maitama District Hospital.

The minister, who in company of the FCT Permanent Secretary, Dr. Babatope Ajakaiye, inspected the health facility in Karu, a suburb of Abuja, gave this stern instruction to the FCT Health and Human Services Secretariat, during his visit to the area.

The Karu General Hospital was initially a 225-bed facility built by the FCT administration with 40 per cent of the hospital leased to the Primus Super Specialty Hospital (an Indian Hospital) for management.

The acting Secretary, Health and Human Services Secretariat, Mrs. Alice Odey-Achu and the Medical Director, Karu General Hospital, Dr. Marcus Mamman, led the minister and his entourage round the entire secondary health facility.

Meanwhile, the minister paid an unscheduled visit to the Zuba Hospital where he instructed that the hospital should commence operation by May 1, 2017.

The acting Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretariat, Mrs. Alice Odey-Achu, who led the minister round the Zuba Hospital, assured him that the Secretariat was ready to commence operation on that appointed date.

She noted that everything needed to enable the hospital commence services was already on ground and that they were ready to hit the ground running.