By; SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri
The Managing Director/CEO, North East Development Commission, (NEDC), Ambassador Mohammed Goni Alkali has said that the commission is embarking on reconstruction of the famous Eye and Dental Hospital Maiduguri to expand on facilities and equipments of the hospital in order accommodate more patients especially the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the state and region.
Alkali who stated this during an inspection tour of the NEDC’s capital projects being executed by the commission within the state capital Maiduguri metropolis on Monday, added that the major reason of carrying general over hauling and rehabilitation of the hospital is to decongest the hospital so that the victims of the Boko Haram insurgency from the remote areas will have access to eye and dental care services.
“The commission will provide medical equipments needed at the hospital, in addition to sponsoring staff training programmes to enhance better services and treatment of patients with serious cases using sophisticated kits and tools.
“For the eye and dental hospital, we have told you that, we are going to renovate the whole place and provide some facilities As you can see now some of the facilities have started coming up like the staff quarters and so on and so forth. We were in the warehouse and you have seen that most of the equipment from which we’re giving them has been delivered.
“By the grace of God, during the first quarter of next year, we hope to finish the renovation and give them all the equipment they needed, so that the hospital would be a centre of excellence,” Alali said.
The MD however, expressed satisfaction with the level of work that us in progress at the sites of the ongoing reconstruction/rehabilitation projects at the Maiduguri eye and dental hospital and the NEDC new headquarters edifice located at the post office area of Maiduguri metropolis.
He further explained that the commission plans to separate the state headquarters of the commission from the main office and some other facilities to serve the community more effectively, while assuring that the commission is working assiduously to improve the living conditions of the people of the North-East region in terms of basic infrastructures, education, empowerment, poverty alleviation, training roads, health, and agriculture among other interventions, particularly, for the victims of Boko Haram insurgency to cushion their sufferings.
