First Lady Oluremi Tinubu Inaugurates ICU, Dr. Aluko Ward at Kwara University Teaching Hospital

Hammed Shittu in Ilorin

Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, yesterday, commissioned the ultra-modern Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Dr. Amuda Aluko VIP Ward at the Kwara State University Teaching Hospital (KWASUTH), Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.

At the commissioning were Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, his wife, Ambassador Olufolake Abdulrazaq, Imo State governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, members of the State Executive Council as well as some dignitaries from other states.

Speaking with newsmen after the commissioning in Ilorin yesterday, the State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Amina Ahmed El-Imam, said: “The ultramodern ward is for everybody to access to without having to break their account.

“The facility will take care of both men and women, young and aged alike”.

She further said: “Furniture is brand new and everything is comfortable, all of these to reduce hospital acquired infection and reduce recuperation time of the patients that will use the Amuda Aliko wards.

“There are 19 rooms in all. Some are double rooms and single. The single rooms are very spacious and can accommodate the patient and medical health workers comfortably.

“While the double rooms are like a room and a parlour. They meet all kinds of targets and needs with the facility provided in here”.

Speaking on the affordability, the commissioner said: “It is not free but you can be rest assured that it is affordable as the government of Kwara State always carries along the least privileged ones in mind.

“At the same time, there is need to carry out a higher level of care than is obtained at our primary health care or our conventional secondary health centre.

“That’s the reason for the facility. So that we can cater for all social economic strata without breaking their pockets and it will also help to reduce medical tourism”.

Responding to maintenance culture necessary to keep the facility in shape, the commissioner said she trusts the effort of the staff of the Kwara State University Teaching Hospital and the Amuda Aliko wards to care of the facility.

“Because they have not had this kind of facility before. No one will have a good thing and will decide to ruin it”, she noted.