SUMAS Teaching Hospital: CSDA to Intervene On Social Amenities
BY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
The Enugu State Community and Social Development Agency (CSDA) says it is executing number of borehole and toilet projects at the State University of Medical and Applied Sciences Teaching Hospital (SUMASTH).
The General Manager of CSDA, Hon. Monday Diamond Ani, disclosed this on Thursday at SUMASTH, Igbo Eno in Udenu Local Government Area of the state.
Ani said this after a working visit and meeting with the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of SUMASTH, Prof. Hughes Okafor and the Vice-Chancellor of State University of Medical and Applied Sciences (SUMAS), Prof. James Ogbonnaya.
According to him, His Excellency the Governor of Enugu State, Dr Peter Mbah, through the CSDA will provide more potable water and public toilets in SUMASTH.
He said that the social amenities interventions at the teaching hospital and SUMAS would augment the already existing ones for smoother running of SUMASTH and SUMAS.
“This historic working visit was for a possible project interventions especially in the areas of construction of toilets and boreholes to augment the availability of potable water supply in the Teaching Hospital.
“These amenities are imperative because of the high patronage of the SUMAS Teaching Hospital.
“The special intervention will solve the challenge of high demand of water in the university as a result of rapid influx of students and large number of staff in both SUMASTH and SUMAS,” he said.
Ani said that the Gov. Mbah remained intentional in fixing every important sector and connecting the dots of development towards making Enugu State the best state in Nigeria.
On the sight tour of the teaching hospital, he said that it was a memorable medical tourism experience due to its embodiment of high-tech cum state-of-the-art teaching hospital facilities.
Responding, the CMD of SUMASTH, Prof. Hughes Okafor, expressed gratitude to the CSDA team for the bold initiatives and intervention step taken so far.
Okafor lauded Gov. Mbah for the continuous support to ensure that standards and service delivery at the institution remain top-notch.
Jude Ossai (JP) a veteran journalist is a National Diploma holder in Mass Communication from Ogwashi-Uku Polytechnic Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State. He also studied at Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) Enugu and Imo State University, Owerri for his first and second degrees in Mass Communication, respectively.
He writes extensively on politics, crime, corruption, climate change, healthcare, human rights, social justice, among others.
He began his journalism career in The Republic Newspaper, Lagos in 1987 as a Special Correspondent in Benin City, Edo State.
In 1990, he was posted from Lagos to old Anambra State as a State Correspondent in Enugu.
In 1994, he joined the African Newspapers of Nigeria (ANN) Plc, Ibadan, Oyo State, Publisher of Nigerian Tribune Newspapers where he rose to the rank of Southeast Bureau Chief.
Retiring from the mainstream traditional media in 2019, he began another journey in online newspaper publication.
He was the Overall Best Reporter in 2015, an award bestowed on him by Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Enugu State.
He has attended several workshops/seminars organised by multi-nationals, government institutions, local and international media including BBC.
He is also a unionist and had held top positions as Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists of Enugu Correspondents’ Chapel and State Council of NUJ, respectively. He was also a one-time Enugu State Secretary of Sports Writers’ Association of Nigeria (SWAN).
