First Hyper-modern First World Hospital To Be Built In Nigeria

I am angry and happy at the same time, angry because it has taken so long for a rich country like Naija to come up with such a project and happy that it is finally the case!


Bill Gates, Eminent Nigerians Plan $400m Hospital Project

By Philip Ogunmade, 11.10.2006
 

A Nigerian medical doctor, Godwin Onyema, in conjunction with Bill Gates Foundation, is proposing a world-class hospital that will provide answers  to many of Nigeria's medical questions in Anambra State.
To be named Augustine Memorial Hospital, the project will gulp $400 million.
Already, the project has secured the support of Bill Gates Foundation and several other foreign institutions such as the Harvard, Princeton and Stanford universities, Ernst and Young and Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Rowe & Maw LLP.
Govenment of Anambra State has donated 200 acres of land for the take-off of the project, while notable Nigerians such as chairman of Diamond Bank, Mr Pascal Dozie, founder of Emzor Pharmaceuticals, Mrs Stella Okoli, former presidential aspirant, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, Director-General of National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Professor Dora Akunyili, Chairman, Eko Hospital, Dr Sonny Kuku and the Cannadian-based Dr Emmanuel Egbogah have thrown their weights behind the project.
Addressing newsmen in Lagos recently, chairman of steering committee for fund raising for the project, Egbogah said some of the facilities of the hospital will include cardiology unit, with catherisation laboratory, burns unit, major unit, orthopaedics department, Positron Emission Tomography (PET) unit and Computerised Axial Tomogragraphy (CAT) unit.
According to him, the hospital will treat both the poor and the rich, irrespective of their financial strengths and reduce drastically the rates of Nigerians taken abroad for treatment.
Egbogah said “the Augustine Memorial Hospital will for the first time bring hi-tech, world class health-care to Nigerians regardless of the ability to pay.
“Nigerians will be able to access at home and in good time, facilities and requisite medical talent needed to perform complex medical operations.”
 The AMH will offer those facilities to Nigerians who cannot afford to pay."
To enable stakeholders raise funds for the project, a fundraising event has been slated for November 24, this year on the theme, "The Health Challenge."
Explaining the rationale behind the project, Dozie asked: "How do you feel when you hear that a Nigerian is sick and has to be flown to South Africa? That is why initiative like this has to be supported," he said.

That would be beautiful. I have not yet heard about it but its such a nice idea. I am already day- dreaming of how the health care delivery in Nigeria would change after such.

I pray the project succeeds.

Good development!I hope it works out!

There no such thin g as an ideal world my sista.
Anyway,kudos to those that concieved this idea and to think of the fact that it is going to be built in my state adds to my elation. For once ,some good news is coming out of Anambra!

@ Jammin I do not know how you came about the idea that Nigerians despise white people. I doubt if there is anything that has been said on Nairaland that alludes to that fact,altho i stand to be corrected.
Nigeria is a rich country ( I would say that anywhere anytime) but our bane just like every other third world country has been corruption championed by bad government._IF we can be able to attenuate that, then I can assure you that in no distant time Nigeria will be a nation whose name strikes fear among the presently industrialized nations. Just reduction of corruption,I tell you Nigeria will become a haven! China was once a 'leper' nation before but right now you can not talk of the world economy without mentioning the impact of the Chinese Market! I tell you, Nigeria, have as much (if not more than) resources as China.Our problem is : CORRUPTION
However,I doubt if it is too bad in the meantime, to depend on these aids to save a few lives until we put our house in order.

Forget about tribalism.Tribalism is everywhere.You can hardly find a homogenous society these days.Every country is grappling with its own form and kind of tribalism,,,,u can call it nepotism,nazism,racialism,,,watever all are forms of discrimination.But I tell you that is not what is holding nigeria back. A naive mind will tend to believe that tribalism is our problem.But on a closer scrutiny of the problem,you will see that greediness,which is what   begets corruption,is really our major drawback.Those in power only use tribalism as a facade when it suits and serves their purpose and the unfortunate thing is that people gullibly believe them! When an incompetent Hausa man wants to have something in Nigeria,he whips up tribal and religious sentiment as a political tool.When a money hungry Igbo man wants something,he remenbers how many of his kindred that was killed in the Nigerian/Biafrian War.When a power drunk yoruba man wants to occupy an office,he starts championing the philosophy of late Awolowo revered by the Yorubas.With that they gain cheap political points.But after the whole political war,see them reunite at the Nations capital (Hausas,Igbos ,Yorubas) to loot the treasury of the whole country to the detriment of the poor man on the street,whom ironically they used to achieve their aim in the first place. That is why if you go to the different geographical zones in the country you will see that the ordinary man in the street is suffering regardless of whether you are in the North,South,West or East.The problems you will see in North is what u will see in the South and that is what raised the question: Who is marginalising Who in Nigeria? I will tell you.The Politicians are the one marginalising NIGERIANS.Lagos is as bad as Onitsha and Onitsha is not much better than Kano! You will see the same problems of bad roads,non existent power supply,decadent educational system etc in all these regions.Each of these regions have senators representing them in the federal level and the only time you will see these senators in their constituency is when another round elections is around the corner.Apart from that they are busy at the nations capital stealing the money that was supposed to be used to build roads,schools and hospitals in their constituency!