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[00:00:49] At defining moment, societies are often judged by how they
[00:00:53] respond to their greatest challenges. For immo state,
[00:00:57] health care has become the clearest sign of exemplar. change,
[00:01:01] for years, many public health facilities struggled with aging
[00:01:06] in infrastructure, limited equipment and the pressure of meeting the needs of a
[00:01:09] growing population. The result was a system where healthcare
[00:01:13] workers
[00:01:14] in often had to do more with less, where patients sometimes travel
[00:01:18] beyond their communities in search of specialized care. A new
[00:01:22] of chapter is now unfolding. Today, wave of
[00:01:25] rehabilitation, reconstruction and investment is reshaping
[00:01:29] imo's health. landscape, and one of such transformation is
[00:01:32] of coming to life at the specialist Hospital, umoguma,
[00:01:36] oweri West Local Government Area. The
[00:01:39] building, formerly the Umuguma General
[00:01:43] of Hospital, is now being remoded into a facility as good as
[00:01:46] new. Curious to witness this transformation first
[00:01:49] hand, I made my way to the specialist Hospital,
[00:01:53] waiting to receive me was the Chief Medical Director, Dr. Chima
[00:01:56] Okbaraji, who led me through facility. where almost
[00:02:00] every corner tells the story of change, construction is still very
[00:02:04] much in progress, but this is far more than
[00:02:07] a renovation
[00:02:08] of project.
[00:02:08] of what was once a general hospital building is steadily taking
[00:02:12] shape as a specialist medical institution, designed to
[00:02:16] provide advanced health
[00:02:17] a care, supported by modern
[00:02:19] of infrastructure, specialized
[00:02:21] in departments and cutting edge technology. not just the renovation
[00:02:24] of the um specialist hospital, but
[00:02:28] a construction of... of new a brand new
[00:02:32] facility with installation of a
[00:02:34] me state
[00:02:34] of the art medical equipment that meet international
[00:02:37] standards. we also
[00:02:41] have
[00:02:41] a diagnosis center, yes
[00:02:45] that - we have
[00:02:48] of MRI, CT scan,
[00:02:51] mammogram, x-rays and the
[00:02:55] of all diagnostic equipments, very modern and
[00:02:58] standard
[00:02:59] of also, um, his
[00:03:01] of excellency has
[00:03:02] in
[00:03:05] a also in -
[00:03:07] of built first of his kind,
[00:03:09] robotic uh complex,
[00:03:12] of robotic of complex, robotic, which of course we are going to
[00:03:15] of see right now, already
[00:03:18] completed, as
[00:03:22] we move through the
[00:03:22] of completed of sections, the next phase
[00:03:25] of the project was already taken shape, room stood ready to
[00:03:29] receive sophisticated. medical equipment, while specialized units
[00:03:32] are waited the teams that will soon bring them to
[00:03:35] life.
[00:03:39] every corridor, every unit, every department and every installed
[00:03:43] machine tells a story of preparation for the patients who will eventually
[00:03:47] work through his doors, beginning with the accident and emergency
[00:03:51] of unit, where the CMD introduced me to advanced treatment
[00:03:55] a technologies designed to improve patientts health outcomes. this place is the
[00:03:59] a entrance for for the accident and the emergency
[00:04:03] session
[00:04:03] of the hospital, so they coming from
[00:04:06] here, a brief stopover,
[00:04:09] yeah, see, then they will move this way, mean for emergency,
[00:04:13] yes, will move this
[00:04:16] way, we have the triage room
[00:04:19] where we sort out the patients based on the severity
[00:04:23] of their
[00:04:25] of problems, some people can be stabilized there if it is very minor
[00:04:28] problem, they can
[00:04:29] of even go from here some people
[00:04:31] can be sent to the word from here, while the ones that require
[00:04:34] accident and emergency care will now be moved
[00:04:38] of to the accident and emergency
[00:04:42] world, over 15 consulting
[00:04:44] rooms,
[00:04:48] on this line left to right, left
[00:04:50] right, wow a
[00:04:54] significant part
[00:04:54] of the hospital's design focuses on matana and child health care,
[00:04:58] the neonatal and Intensive care unit is been developed to provide
[00:05:02] specialized
[00:05:03] of support for
[00:05:04] of premature babies and newborns requiring critical
[00:05:07] care at metal
[00:05:11] section. so the antinatal women they stay
[00:05:15] here to receive you know the antinatal
[00:05:19] talk you cansling and then these are consulting rooms
[00:05:22] after which the doctors see
[00:05:25] them this place
[00:05:29] for families facing complicated pregnancies or fragile
[00:05:33] newborn conditions access to specialized care can make the
[00:05:36] difference between uncertainty and hope the maternity boards of modern
[00:05:40] labor and surgical facilities
[00:05:42] designed to support safe deliveries and emergency obstatric
[00:05:46] procedures, this is a postnatal what
[00:05:49] after delivery we
[00:05:52] admit the women here after
[00:05:54] delivery, this is one, two, three
[00:05:58] and four, wow, and everyone is just like
[00:06:02] this,
[00:06:03] like this, yes, beyond physical
[00:06:07] illness, the hospital also recognizes another growing head care
[00:06:10] need, mental health, dedicated spaces are being
[00:06:14] created to support patients requiring psychiatric and psychological
[00:06:18] care a structured clinical environment. when we talk about mental health, people think
[00:06:22] that it is mad people, you know there are a lot
[00:06:26] of mental health issues, even depression, if you assess
[00:06:29] everyone here you will find that that one or two may have a mental
[00:06:33] health challenge. also you know there is also drug
[00:06:37] addiction that is ramp to, so rehabilitation works to
[00:06:41] take place here inside this.
[00:06:42] Yes, one the important support systems
[00:06:46] been developed in the hospitals oxygen plant to support
[00:06:50] emergency care, surgery, intensive care and neonatal
[00:06:54] services. Okay, the scope the work is actually massive
[00:06:58] in terms of scope, areas cover, there's
[00:07:01] virtually no field that um, no field of
[00:07:05] medicine, yes in terms of everyday use, everyday
[00:07:08] practice that isn't touched from the theaters to... the
[00:07:12] independent medical plants uh gas plants units to the words
[00:07:16] everything to the NICU, the miku, the
[00:07:20] ICUs everything is covered in the place and it's
[00:07:24] actually very massive and being very well
[00:07:27] implemented and the diagnostic centers and diagnostic
[00:07:30] center in terms the equipment
[00:07:33] what much top notch
[00:07:37] top notch equipment from everything you you've already seen them
[00:07:41] talkch every thing you have from the beds to the uh
[00:07:45] the CT units at the radiology there
[00:07:48] sements that's about the world's best you have yes
[00:07:52] you have the semence products the CT the MRI we have
[00:07:56] there the x-ray units the the mamo yes all
[00:08:00] them talk much the construction exercise
[00:08:04] features comprehensive notation the
[00:08:07] entire uh medical facility
[00:08:11] informing the uh the
[00:08:14] structures and then uh retrouding and
[00:08:18] equiping state
[00:08:19] in the the hearts equipment uh the
[00:08:23] as i said earlier it featured innovation civ works
[00:08:26] and then equipment installation now all the
[00:08:30] department generally were innovated and
[00:08:34] the feet more than we have
[00:08:38] the surgical watch surgical watch which was
[00:08:56] the current modern facility for
[00:08:59] facility like that, the the
[00:09:03] hospital laboratory was fully furnished
[00:09:07] fully equip as well, likewise uh the
[00:09:10] Nicu is... modern facility we can have
[00:09:14] look of this one, we also have the uh the maternity
[00:09:18] what
[00:09:19] uh
[00:09:22] dt and the modern equipment as
[00:09:26] well, more importantly uh we have
[00:09:29] the
[00:09:33] uh the gas plant, the gas plant which is an essential part
[00:09:37] the hospital uh facility in
[00:09:40] which uh each them the necessary
[00:09:43] department are uh equipped with
[00:09:47] medical gas facility the oxygen the valcuum
[00:09:51] as well as the medical gas medical year
[00:09:54] itself uh we have the icu
[00:09:58] that is the part it is fully equip with
[00:10:02] electric b yeah but yes
[00:10:04] icu f
[00:10:08] yes so and then we have the diagon center the
[00:10:12] geology complex yeah we are going there
[00:10:16] so we have the city we can look at the ic
[00:10:19] we and we have
[00:10:21] the uh we have the mo and we have
[00:10:28] Yes, one the most ambitious features planned for the
[00:10:32] facility is the robotic surgery and oncology
[00:10:35] center, it is the first of his kind by any nigeran state, one the
[00:10:39] landmark projects of his
[00:10:42] excellency, distinguished senator, the governor of
[00:10:46] imo state, this building actually was started six months
[00:10:49] ago from foundation up to this point, now it
[00:10:53] is even fully equip. "the robot is here, so there'll be robot
[00:10:57] assisted surgeries, people will, in fact at the
[00:11:01] back there'll be a helepart, because yes, at the back
[00:11:05] the robotic center, so the very soon it
[00:11:08] to yes elip for the headquopters that will bring people
[00:11:12] from outside the state,
[00:11:15] because yeah, because of emergencies, this center
[00:11:19] attracts people from all over the world, it's not just, so you're already
[00:11:23] looking at this..."
[00:11:26] um, this tertiary hospital,
[00:11:29] yes, also
[00:11:31] um, playing his part in terms
[00:11:34] of reducing, reversing medical tourism, reversing medical
[00:11:38] yes, tourism, yes,
[00:11:39] tourism, it will reverse medical tourism, so this place will be man by a
[00:11:42] professor, robotic surgeon, uh,
[00:11:46] he comes here regularly, he himself with his team
[00:11:50] of a surgeons, they'l be carrying out complex,
[00:11:54] yes, even UK, US, they will be coming
[00:11:58] to card out complex surgeries, robotic surgeries here
[00:12:02] from time to time, and that's why that
[00:12:05] need for the helipad came up and his excellency
[00:12:09] approved the back of that place for that
[00:12:11] purpose. is just few weeks from his grand
[00:12:15] opening, once fully operational, robotic assistant surgery
[00:12:19] will significantly expand the hospital's capacity to perform highly
[00:12:23] precise and minimal invasive
[00:12:25] procedures, the technology is already in
[00:12:29] place, with the remaining installations nearing
[00:12:31] completion. leading this pionearing initiative is
[00:12:35] professor Kinsley ekeeme, the UK trained robotic
[00:12:39] surgeon who made history by performing West Africa's first robotic
[00:12:43] assisted prostate cancer surgery using the Davinci surgical
[00:12:46] system. I came here and when I
[00:12:50] saw things that
[00:12:54] distinguished. senator hope was the my governor was doing,
[00:12:58] he didn't need to tell anything anymore, so at
[00:13:02] the end of it he asked me if i
[00:13:05] could develop what i do here in limo
[00:13:09] states and i said yes i'll do
[00:13:12] it and everything he
[00:13:15] promised he delivered it and he personally
[00:13:19] made sure that didn't have any
[00:13:22] complaint and i can tell you that the emo robotic
[00:13:26] center uh is modeled after
[00:13:30] similar center
[00:13:32] in uh hamburg okay so
[00:13:36] my friends when i went out there to meet them that was where i started having
[00:13:40] this concept of boutique
[00:13:43] clinic boutique surgical
[00:13:46] clinic where a patient will coming and
[00:13:50] feel like you're at home and you walk
[00:13:54] in you walk out same way as you came in and
[00:13:58] that's the concept, that's why this is not called a robotic
[00:14:01] hospital because hospital has negative
[00:14:05] psychological impact on the patient and i've
[00:14:08] researched on the psychological impact of cancer on
[00:14:11] patients um in my
[00:14:15] unit where i currently had the cancer
[00:14:19] department as well so it's
[00:14:22] called the robotic clinic for reason.
[00:14:26] and his excellency asked me if i could
[00:14:30] deliver the project within six months
[00:14:33] and i
[00:14:35] can i don't know the record you will
[00:14:38] tell me if there's been any of this type of
[00:14:42] building in this country that was achieved in
[00:14:46] four months with his expertise guiding the program state
[00:14:50] officials believe many Nigerians who currently seek specialized treatment
[00:14:54] abroad the soon find world class care much closer to
[00:14:57] home, the robot is inside of here, the main
[00:15:01] robot is inside of here, and other accessories, that's
[00:15:05] other accessories, this one
[00:15:07] and and this one
[00:15:11] as well, so this is what
[00:15:14] professor and his
[00:15:17] team will be
[00:15:19] using to attend
[00:15:22] to people. need special
[00:15:26] care in himo state and beyond the borders of
[00:15:30] imo state, lot is happening in the health
[00:15:33] sector in emo state and the whole idea
[00:15:38] is to be able to take good care of
[00:15:41] people
[00:15:43] health-wise, the governor is spearing no
[00:15:46] effort, is brought in
[00:15:50] expensive top the range equipment for the
[00:15:54] purpose of delivering health
[00:15:57] care a manner that is
[00:16:01] world class and the CMD has told
[00:16:04] us so much about the efforts that the... has
[00:16:07] made. Behind
[00:16:11] the scens, the sound of construction form part the story.
[00:16:15] Well loaders transported crush stones and construction materials
[00:16:19] to level the ground in preparation for additional
[00:16:22] structure, helippad. The facility is intended
[00:16:26] to support faster emergency transfers and improve
[00:16:30] response capability for critically ill patients requiring urgent
[00:16:33] specialist attention. I'm standing right now at the back of.
[00:16:38] the emo state specialist hospitals, robotic and
[00:16:41] oncology center and the governor of state
[00:16:45] plans to build early part behind the
[00:16:49] center, this is because this
[00:16:52] center is projected to
[00:16:55] bring in foreign experts led
[00:16:59] by professor uh
[00:17:02] equme who is a world class robotic surgeon based in the
[00:17:06] United Kingdom. "there would be many
[00:17:09] people, it is expected from different parts of
[00:17:12] Nigeria, and some of those people will need
[00:17:15] emergency attention, and that is
[00:17:19] why erypad is going to be
[00:17:22] built at the back of this robotic center so
[00:17:25] that those who need emergency care can be
[00:17:29] brought to the center uh via by
[00:17:33] air, that is through the helicopters, it is clear that this"
[00:17:37] project represents new model of specialist headcare infrastructure
[00:17:41] where advanced technology, skill professionals and modern facilities
[00:17:45] come together under one roof. healthcare transformation is not confined
[00:17:49] to one location. across imost state, different hospitals are
[00:17:53] contributing their own chapters to much larger
[00:17:55] story. my next stop:
[00:17:59] omoma in oru is local government area, where
[00:18:03] another remarkable transformation is going on. at the
[00:18:07] Michael Husodima Memorial Hospital in Homoma
[00:18:10] named after Governor Hope Usodima's late father.
[00:18:13] The hospital represent another important chapter in the state's brother effort to
[00:18:17] rebuild public health care infrastructure. While
[00:18:21] every facility tells his old stories. They are all
[00:18:25] connected by one shared vision, creating hospitals that are
[00:18:29] better equipped to meet the health careare needs or the people they
[00:18:32] serve. Waiting to receive me was chief medical director
[00:18:36] Dr. Anthony. who guided me through the
[00:18:39] hospital and explained the remarkable changes taking place across the
[00:18:43] facility, as we proceed with our
[00:18:46] evaluation of governor hopusodima's work in the health
[00:18:50] sector, today we are in umuma
[00:18:54] and muma and i have with me
[00:18:58] the chief medical director the general hospital
[00:19:02] in umuma town Dr.
[00:19:05] Azunye Anthony.
[00:19:10] CMD, it's a pleasure meeting you and
[00:19:13] um,
[00:19:14] we will be happy to go into the inner recessis of your
[00:19:17] hospital. Our first stop was the ophalmology
[00:19:20] department. Can you explain to us?
[00:19:23] Yes, here traditional diagnostic
[00:19:27] methods are gradually giving way to state the heart technology,
[00:19:30] enabling clinicians to detect e conditions
[00:19:33] earlier, make more accurate diagnosis and deliver. more
[00:19:37] effective treatment lensometer what what
[00:19:40] what does that mean this is
[00:19:42] for confirming uh lens prescriptions okay
[00:19:46] yes so this is the fonduse camera fonduse camera yes
[00:19:50] fonduse camera for checking the internal structures inside the
[00:19:53] eye and
[00:19:54] then slit slet number microscopy
[00:19:58] then we have the fire lens box
[00:20:02] okay the thernometer
[00:20:04] that cont is the
[00:20:08] latest, yes, previously, you need to the late
[00:20:12] patient size, introduce something to be able to get the
[00:20:15] pressure the recently with this machine don't need
[00:20:19] that,
[00:20:23] like that, can
[00:20:27] imagine, it has
[00:20:30] and just made your job lot easier, no stress, you will just do your
[00:20:34] work, so how many of th can you? give me so
[00:20:38] let these are basically uh frames, optical
[00:20:41] frames and there are no prescriptions inside, no
[00:20:45] lenses, yes, basically just optical which
[00:20:49] we use for the... the final prescription
[00:20:52] glasses, so the the patient can
[00:20:55] choose one that i want, yes, for the doctors, nurses
[00:20:59] and other healthcare professionals, perhaps the greatest transformation cannot
[00:21:03] be measured by the arrival of new machines alone as a medical
[00:21:07] practitioner, you read about it, you see it
[00:21:10] action and you see how many lives it saves and
[00:21:14] how it comes to intervent in saving lives, lives
[00:21:18] of babies that see that to... would have died without any
[00:21:21] intervention, this is true that we cannot thank
[00:21:25] a governor enoughted
[00:21:29] oxygen supply, you don't have
[00:21:33] need most times for bringing in
[00:21:35] oxygen you socket to the
[00:21:39] oxygen from the oxygen
[00:21:41] so it's already piped to this place we have oxygen
[00:21:45] production units at the three designated locations
[00:21:49] and state they have one at all teaching
[00:21:52] hospital, teaching hospital, they have one at the now
[00:21:56] federal medical center of okay so we get supply get
[00:22:00] supply from so once you receive the supplies you
[00:22:03] then i them to the yes
[00:22:07] intensive care unit wow intensive care
[00:22:10] unit and everything is looking new here as
[00:22:14] well wonderful this is
[00:22:17] great Yes, that's what it
[00:22:21] suggest to me as somebody far away, yes, I like
[00:22:25] to see new things, can see
[00:22:28] monitor one for each patients, there for these
[00:22:32] patients and these are ventilating machines,
[00:22:36] for automatic ventilation and
[00:22:39] specize the patient, supply
[00:22:41] oxygen, this this
[00:22:44] equipment will make the big difference between life
[00:22:48] and death changes. everything stories that
[00:22:52] used to be that patients get into that segment and they don't come back to
[00:22:56] life, it's a very thing the
[00:22:58] past, something
[00:23:01] anybody that understands
[00:23:04] healthcare very, so as health
[00:23:07] professional, seeing that you are
[00:23:11] a better position to save
[00:23:15] lives, what what what does this do to
[00:23:17] you personally? and for all of us working
[00:23:21] here gives us this satisfaction sense
[00:23:25] of satisfaction that all your efforts are not
[00:23:28] in very
[00:23:31] happy here yes
[00:23:35] because uh when
[00:23:37] the the question came i was told to come to
[00:23:41] this place very very
[00:23:45] happy i'm going to
[00:23:47] work us
[00:23:50] community and a
[00:23:53] facility you build
[00:23:57] that is one the best if not the
[00:24:00] best in the whole the
[00:24:02] state because some
[00:24:05] the now some that
[00:24:09] we have here state theip
[00:24:10] the all and environment everything is
[00:24:14] superb nobody will come here and say
[00:24:18] that will be happy.
[00:24:22] another notable feature was the availability of backup equipment,
[00:24:26] in health careare, preparation is
[00:24:28] essential, our
[00:24:31] pharmacy, our tour then led us to the pharmacy department where i met
[00:24:35] young pharmacists whose enthusiasm reflected the renewed
[00:24:39] optimism within the hospital, for someone
[00:24:42] entrusted with ensuring the safe and timely availability of
[00:24:46] medicines, the improvements were more than cosmetic, the rep
[00:24:50] best a services working environment designed to support better health service delivery
[00:24:53] and patient satisfaction is
[00:24:57] doing very well to see
[00:25:00] that we have all we we
[00:25:00] need don't our suffer
[00:25:03] from um drug
[00:25:06] is
[00:25:07] sufficiency.
[00:25:20] to see the environment generally from your own
[00:25:23] place,
[00:25:24] the environment is good, the are lovely people,
[00:25:27] the hospital was recovered from years of deterioration
[00:25:31] before undergoing renovation, rehabilitation and re-equipment.
[00:25:35] today the transformation extends across multiple departments, creating
[00:25:39] an environment design to support improved health care delivery.
[00:25:42] this is the first state-owned
[00:25:46] robotic center in Nigeria and Governor
[00:25:50] has spaared no efforts to bring in some the best
[00:25:54] state the heart equipment, not just for
[00:25:58] this robotic center, but for the
[00:26:01] hospital. in his entireity and the governor has
[00:26:05] also shown tremendous focus on
[00:26:09] training and retraining of
[00:26:13] hospital workers so that they can
[00:26:16] deliver optimum service
[00:26:20] for the good people of emo states and as the CMD told
[00:26:23] me the health insurance that is already in
[00:26:27] place will ensure that health
[00:26:31] care. is wholesome, is
[00:26:34] accessible, is affordable and qualitative in
[00:26:38] emo
[00:26:38] state.
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