The University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, on Monday, commissioned its N127million newly renovated and equipped intensive care unit and promised Nigerians near-zero death cases in critically ill patients that access treatment at the hospital. UCH’s Chief Medical Director, Professor Abiodun Otegbayo, said these will prevent cases of needless deaths from lack of basic equipment at the hospital’s intensive care unit.“Oftentimes, there are cases of needless deaths. It saddens my heart when patients that should be given first-class treatment could not get it because of lack of basic equipment that is taken for granted in hospitals of equal status outside the country.
“We have human resources; we are training and retraining them. At the same time, we are investing in developing our facilities to maximise the investment in human resources.”
Earlier, Professor Seg un Ogunlade, who spoke on behalf of the hospital’s theatre management committee described some deaths as a needless loss that could have been salvaged with appropriate facilities.
According to him, “the lives you save today, you will never know its value until you gain from that life in the future. It is very important that we should safe live, we never know whose will be at risk and who can benefit.”
source: Tribune
