Our target is to make Alex-Ekwueme Teaching Hospital best referral centre — CMD

Prof. Robinson Onoh, the Chief Medical Director, Alex-Ekueme Teaching Hospital Abakaliki (AE-FUTHA), says the hospital’s target is to make the facility one of the best referral centres in the country.

Onoh made the assertion in Abakaliki on Tuesday when members of the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) paid him a courtesy visit.

He said the hospital had grown to become second in human capacity and personnel for clinical services.

He added that “our focus is to standardise the practice of medicine, and accreditation has been ongoing in various departments.

“Alex-Ekwueme is a strategic centre. We created an enabling environment to work for better service delivery.

“We want to become the best referral centre in the country. Our haematology department remains the best; the ophthalmology centre has also advanced.”

On staff training, the medical director said the hospital had adopted retraining of health personnel within and outside the country.

He commended the correspondents chapel members for promoting activities of the hospital.

He said, “health is pivotal; we should always remember that health is wealth. Our personnel are available to save lives. I urge you to widen your support through reportage.”

The chairman of the chapel, Mr. Uchenna Inya, said that the visit was to familiarise himself with the institution in an effort to link its activities to the world.

Inya pledged the chapel’s support and continued to project the institution’s activities to society.