GROUP DONATES EQUIPMENT TO HOSPITALS

Hospital equipment worth over 60 million naira have been donated to General Hospital, Ikot Abasi, Cottage Hospital Mkpat Enin, and 11 other Health Centres in the Area by Mkpat Abasi Group, a non-governmental organization based in the United States of America
Speaking at the occasion, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Louisa Ukpeh, restated the priority attention paid to the health sector by the present administration through manpower development, enhanced welfare package for health workers and re-equipping of hospitals.
The Commissioner who was represented by Dr, Celestine Akpan, expressed appreciation to the NGO for the donation, observing that it will go a long way to boast health care delivery services in the health facilities.
While observing that health care services was a capital intensive venture, which the state government could not handle alone, she called on other organizations and public spirited individuals to emulate the good example of Mkpat Abasi Groups.

Dr. Ukpeh further urged the benefiting health facilities to make good use of the equipment for the purpose they were meant in order to reciprocate the kind gesture of the donors.
In his address, the President of the Organization, Dr. Philip Udoinyang, commended the Akpabio administration for the revolutional transformation in the Akwa Ibom health sector, stressing that the organization was determined to raise General Hospital Ikot Abasi to meet world standard.
Dr. Udoinyang who listed the items donated to include X-ray and Ultra sound machines, syringes, needles and other consumables, appealed to the benefiting hospitals to ensure that services rendered to the people through the equipment were offered free.
Also speaking, the Medical Superintendent of General Hospital, Ikot Abasi, Dr. Ifiok Ekaebe, noted that the donation will assist them in providing quality medical care to the people while also complementing the efforts of the state government at providing effective, efficient and free health care services to the people of the state.
He expressed appreciation to Governor Akpabio for donating large quantity of medical consumables and drugs to the hospital to facilitate the free health care project for children under five years, pregnant women and elderly people, observing that the hospital has witnessed large turn-out of patients seeking medical care because of the free medical programme.
Dr. Ekaebe also used the occasion to appeal to the State Government to provide the hospital with additional nursing staff, an ambulance vehicle to assist them in referrals of serious cases and a separate transformer to prevent frequent fluctuations of power supply which he maintained have damaged some of their medical equipment.