From Our Correspondent
The Reference Hospital, Okene, Kogi State has conducted more than 100 surgeries and handled many safe child deliveries in the last four months.
Chief Medical Director (CMD), Prof.Solomon Avidime, announced this during the end-of-year get-together organised for the staff of the hospital in Okene.
TheNewsZenith reports that the Kogi State Government inaugurated the hospital on Aug. 9, 2023, and officially handed it over to Avidime.
The CMD pledged that the 250-bed healthcare facility would offer more quality health services in 2024.
The hospital, he said, would offer teaching hospital service to the Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTECH) in Osara.
He commended the staffers for playing a significant role in the successful running of the health facility.
According to him, the majority of the workers have shown hard work and commitment to duty.
The hospital boss urged them to sustain the tempo in the new year, assuring them that there would be more job opportunities as the facility would soon expand its operations.
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With this tertiary facility, he said, medical students of CUSTECH would not have to go far for clinical practices again.
Avidime expressed optimism that the availability of modern state-of-the-art facilities would aid the students’ training.
He called on the people of Egbiraland to support the hospital in its quest to render quality services to the general populace.
CMD stressed the need for philanthropists to assist the hospital to be able to render services to indigents in need of dire medical attention through payment of their bills.
He commended the foresight and initiative of Gov. Yahaya Bello for establishing and adequately staffing the hospital.
The CMD assured the hospital would justify the government’s huge investment in the medical facility.
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