“Health financing research indicates that in order to secure more money for health, it is vital health ministries and agencies to demonstrate that the allocations would be efficiently and transparently disbursed and expended. “In a fiscally constrained country such as Nigeria, adopting robust resource tracking tools to ensure accountability for public resources on healthcare is key; hence the achievements record by UCTH in the last five years stood out as a testament,’’ he said. He said that the Chief Medical Director of UCTH, Prof. Thoams Agan, had significantly transformed the hospital since he took over as he relocated the hospital to its permanent site.
Ogakwu said that the groups’ independent assessment revealed that the clinical service delivery bed occupancy increased from 47 per cent in 2011 to 85 per cent in 2016 while new out-patient attendance increased from 70 per cent in 2011 to 99.5 per cent in 2017.
He listed some recent achievements of the UCTH to include completion of Dialysis Centre with commencement of dialysis services, upgrading of Orthopaedic unit in surgery department to full-fledged department with staff complement. Also listed are Endoscopic procedure, installation of CT scan, and 3D Ultrasound machine for Radiology department. According to him, services have been introduced in specialised clinical areas that were lacking-Nephrology, Cardiothoracic surgery and Gastroenterology.
He said that UCTH had also made commendable strides in infrastructural development due to prudent deployment of resources.
Source: promonaija