Victor Ezeja
AdminFemi Gbajabiamila, the Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu on Monday expressed satisfaction over the extent of work put into the State House clinic, stressing that the facilities now installed in the medical center are of international standard.
Speaking after a tour of the N21 billion State House Hospital, (Presidential Wing), he recalled that there had been a lot of uncomplimentary remarks about the place but that the country would now be proud to have such a clinic of international standard.
Prime Business Africa recalls that erstwhile first lady, Aisha Buhari had in 2017 decried the “lack of facilities” including syringes. Speaking at the opening of a two-day stakeholders meeting on RMNCAH+N (Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health and Nutrition), she said, “a few weeks ago I was sick as well, they advised me to take the first flight out to London (but) I refused to go.
“I said I must be treated in Nigeria because there is a budget for an assigned clinic to take care of us. If the budget is N100 million, we need to know how the budget is spent. Along the line, I insisted they call Aso Clinic to find out if the X-ray machine is working; they said it is not working. They didn’t know I am the one that was supposed to be in that hospital at that very time,” President Buhari’s wife had said.
Today, Gbajabiamila inspected the facility and said the following to journalists afterward: “First of all, like you rightly said, there has been a lot of talk about this clinic, not just today, even when I was in the National Assembly as Speaker and so I thought, having been here a few months, let’s have a look and see exactly what is going on.
“I have seen, I am very impressed and I’m sure you are as well because you went around with me. This is a clinic like anywhere in the world, you will find, the standard is very high. The equipment is world-class. From my understanding, there’s some equipment that you wouldn’t even find in too many places all over the world.
“So as far as clinics go, in terms of equipment, in terms of what they can do, in terms of, I mean, I’ve just been lectured about kidney transplant now from one of the best… There’s a Cath. Lab. that’s world-class and so many other things. There’s an equipment they called C-ARM, this gladdens my heart that at least when we were appropriating money in the House of Representatives as Speaker, I could see where the money has gone to
“So it’s for them to dot the I’s and cross the T’s and put finishing touches and I think we’ll be proud to say that we have a clinic of international standard like this one.”
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