laudate:


I beg to disagree with the portion highlighted in bold type. We definitely need a world-class hospital in Nigeria. Do you know how many patients have to go abroad annually to seek expert medical care, simply because we don't have adequate facilities locally to treat their cases? Don't you see the numerous appeals from sick patients for financial help to go to India, Israel and other countries, for surgery and other forms of medical treatment? The basic problem with this Ibom Specialist Hospital has been the nonchalance of govt and the management. If this hospital were sited in a place like Lagos, it probably would have been managed better.

There are so many doctors that find it difficult to get a place, to carry out their internships. And we have many Nigerian medical consultants abroad, whose expertise is badly needed here, locally. This hospital could have been a great example of Public-Private-Partnership (PPP), if only it was well-managed. Private hospitals like Lagoon, St. Nicholas and Reddington in Lagos, that do not have half of the facilities in Ibom Specialist Hospital, are thriving and doing well. So why can't this hospital be made to work?

Chukason1:
....This happens when you employ Yoruba as workers .... Laziness sets in

CosmeticChemist:
Doctors find it difficult to get a place ? I doubt.

Medical schools are also springing up and producing more graduates beyond what the sector can currently absorb for internships and more medical students are receiving training in Eastern Europe and Asia, and coming back to Nigeria to complete the internship programme.

To make matters worse, there has been no corresponding expansion of secondary health facilities to provide more training slots. The difficulty in securing internship slots by young medical graduates is likely to influence their future career plans. As internship slots get more difficult to come by, residency/ post-graduation training opportunities also dwindle.

Difficulties in securing these opportunities for career development will probably negatively influence new medical graduates and they will continue to seek better opportunities outside Nigeria. The high rate at which Nigerian doctors are accepted into training programs in the most advanced countries in the world today is a testament to the capability of graduates from our medical schools. However, Nigeria needs to get its act together if it is to be the “Giant of Africa” when it comes to retention of medical doctors in its health system. http://nigeriahealthwatch.com/medical-training-and-the-challenges-of-finding-internship-slots-in-nigeria/

KunkAcid:




Your father is a lame old dirty bastard!

Like father like son!



Ozuoooor!

Chukason1:




Do you know in conclusion you didn't make any point ..... Must you comment without thinking Smh for your generations

cooltola:
instead of building something big, the Governor should have build smaller building which is easier to manage compared to very big building. We are not good in managing big things in Africa, we are not set up like that.

Chartey:
Nobody is talking about the real issue here.
This hospital was designed to offer premium healthcare at give away fees. It was never going to be sustainable especially with a private organization involved that needed to make profit.
The commissioner was complaining about the monies they demanded as pay. Was he really expecting them to accept anything close to the peanuts Nigerian doctors accept (after strikes and insults from the public) from govt?

laudate:


I beg to disagree with the portion highlighted in bold type. We definitely need a world-class hospital in Nigeria. Do you know how many patients have to go abroad annually to seek expert medical care, simply because we don't have adequate facilities locally to treat their cases? Don't you see the numerous appeals from sick patients for financial help to go to India, Israel and other countries, for surgery and other forms of medical treatment? The basic problem with this Ibom Specialist Hospital has been the nonchalance of govt and the management. If this hospital were sited in a place like Lagos, it probably would have been managed better.

There are so many doctors that find it difficult to get a place, to carry out their internships. And we have many Nigerian medical consultants abroad, whose expertise is badly needed here, locally. This hospital could have been a great example of Public-Private-Partnership (PPP), if only it was well-managed. Private hospitals like Lagoon, St. Nicholas and Reddington in Lagos, that do not have half of the facilities in Ibom Specialist Hospital, are thriving and doing well. So why can't this hospital be made to work?

SalamRushdie:
Oh God why doesn't anything ever work in this country

Ezionye:
Hello

I dint say we do not need a world-class hospital in Nigeria. I said we do not need that kind of " world class" hospital. Note the quotes.

We cannot have a world class hospital overnight and you would agree with me that world class doesn't necessarily mean size or design of the building or dumping expensive modern equipment in it without proper management or training that is why I mentioned research and suitability.

My emphasis was on its workability and not just an avenue for wastage.

laudate:

Guy, I am not a fan of semantics. What exactly do you mean by 'that kind of "world class" hospital?' Is there a particular kind of world-class hospital, or does the word 'world-class,' have a different meaning? Nobody is talking about the size of the hospital, as I have never seen a world-class hospital located in a room-and-parlour structure, or within a bungalow. Different specialties exist in a world-class hospital, and the problem with this hospital is just the state govt's ineptitude. The hospital can work, if all those concerned decide to make it work! Simple.

Proper management and trained medical personnel can be obtained to run the hospital, if only govt decides to do things right. It took 8 years to build that hospital, it was not done overnight, so why didn't they make adequate provision for the equipment and personnel during that time? The problem with the hospital can easily be fixed, if the state govt decides to tackle it squarely. You do not need rocket scientists to restore that hospital to full functional status.

laudate:


True!! And the sad thing is that there are international bodies willing to invest in building local healthcare facilities, if a solid business case is presented to them. Here is one example of what a private Nigerian hospital has been able to achieve by emphasising medical excellence.

Gerrard59:
Am I a pessimist?

Ezionye:
OK. your point which is not different from mine has been noted.

Besides there is a bright pink "f" by my moniker so lose calling me guy. Goodnite

Ndipe:
Another elephant project?

laudate:

Yes, you still are. You do not see solutions to the problem, only the root cause.

Gerrard59:


You talk as if these people don't know the solutions. This is Nigeria, I've studied how things are done here and I believe it won't work. No be today yansh dey back!!!!

Day by day, I'm always vindicated on how things are done in the country.

Yeah, I'm a proud pessimist realist.

cooltola:
instead of building something big, the Governor should have build smaller building which is easier to manage compared to very big building. We are not good in managing big things in Africa, we are not set up like that.

Blue3k:
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Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/245176-n41-billion-akwa-ibom-world-class-hospital-shut.html

Blue3k:
That's a great point. I assumed they were just going to subsidize the medicine. It's obvious this place would be more expensive than other hospital because it's specialist hospital. Then they had to run generators and pay foreign staff at premium rates. I'm sure they weren't making same wages anyway.

The fact is statistically the hospital could have been run worked well if they weren't idiotic in execution. Nigerian's spend a billion dollars on medical tourism with 50% going to 50 per cent of the patients travelling to Europe, Asia, America and other parts of the world. If we captured a 10% of that market share the hospital would be profitable. The fact is the didn't care anything about business case.