Gov Fubara commissions two medical facilities in Port Harcourt

Gov Fubara

Rivers Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, on Wednesday, officially opened two tertiary medical facilities in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

Both, the remodeled Dental, Maxillofacial Ear Nose Throat, and Ophthalmology Hospital and Prof. Kelsey Harrison Hospital was upgraded and modernised recently by the immediate past government of Nyesom Wike but was completed by Fubara.

Speaking at the official opening ceremony of the Dental, Maxillofacial Ear Nose Throat, and Ophthalmology Hospital located beside the Rebisi flyover in Port Harcourt City, Governor Fubara said his administration is committed to advancing the interest and welfare of Rivers people, declaring that nothing can cause a deviation.

He remarked that whatever it would cost, the interest of the people and development of the state would remain paramount and there cannot be development without quality healthcare delivery, which is why the state-of-the-art facility has been provided.

Gov. Fubara explained that what he was doing in the State for Rivers people aligns with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu’s administration which is anchored on restoring the hope of improving the economy and social wellbeing of the citizenry.

According to him, “We came, we saw and we are opening for the benefit of our people.”

Also speaking at Mile 1 at the premises of Prof. Kelsey Harrison Hospital the Governor asked Rivers people and residents to protect critical infrastructure and social services provided for them as partners so that they can contribute their quota to the effective functioning of those facilities.

He noted that the hospital has been remodeled and made functional with taxpayers’ money requiring that the people who would use it and host community dwellers own it by ensuring that it is not vandalised or the equipment misused.

The governor also assured that soon, the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital Board and the Healthcare Management Board would be reconstituted to handle the issues of employment in the health sector, to utilise their quota of the ongoing recruitment of 10 thousand persons.

Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Adaeze Oreh, at the occasion said the project, delivered before the stipulated 16 months, is designed to serve specialised health services to patients, for training and medical research.

According to her, the project entailed a new administrative building with offices, a two hundred seating capacity conference hall, a separate reading library for patients and a fully equipped kitchen space, a cafeteria and a laundry section.

The Commissioner while describing the project said the 100-bed secondary healthcare hospital, located in the highly populated Diobu area of Port Harcourt is a 3-storey building.

She stated that it would strategically address the high burden of maternal mortality, infant and child mortality, diabetes, hepatitis, hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases.

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