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[00:00:12] of of
[00:00:19] in in
[00:00:38] of of
[00:00:54] For IMO state, head care has become the clearest sign of
[00:00:58] of exemplary change. For. many public health
[00:01:01] facilities struggled with edging
[00:01:04] in infrastructure, limited equipment and the pressure of meeting the needs of a
[00:01:08] growing population. The result was a system where healthcare
[00:01:11] workers often had to do more with less, where patients
[00:01:15] sometimes travel beyond their communities in search of specialized
[00:01:18] care. A new chapter is now unfolding.
[00:01:22] Today, wave of rehabilitation, reconstruction and
[00:01:26] investment is reshaping IMO's healthcare landscape and one of
[00:01:30] so transformation is
[00:01:31] of coming to life at the specialist hospital Umoguma
[00:01:34] Owere West Local Government Area. The
[00:01:37] building, formerly the Umuguma General
[00:01:41] of Hospital, is now being remolded into a facility as good as
[00:01:44] new. Curious to witness this transformation first
[00:01:47] hand, I made my way to the specialist hospital.
[00:01:51] waiting to receive me was the Chief Medical Director, Dr. Chima
[00:01:55] Okbaraji, who led me through facility where almost
[00:01:58] every corner tells story of change, construction is still very
[00:02:02] much in progress, but this is far more than
[00:02:05] a renovation project.
[00:02:07] of what was once a general hospital building is steadily taking shape as a
[00:02:11] specialist medical institution, designed to provide advanced
[00:02:15] healthcare, supported by modern
[00:02:19] in of infrastructure, specialized departments and cotton edge technology, not just the renovation
[00:02:22] of the specialist hospital, but
[00:02:26] a construction of new a brand. new
[00:02:30] facility with installation of a
[00:02:32] me state
[00:02:32] of the art medical equipment that meet international
[00:02:35] standard, we also
[00:02:39] have
[00:02:39] a diagnosis center, yes
[00:02:43] that will have
[00:02:46] of MRI, ct scan,
[00:02:49] mammogram, x-rays and the all
[00:02:53] of diagnostic equipment very modern and
[00:02:56] standard,
[00:02:58] of also um his ex has
[00:03:01] in also innow
[00:03:05] of built first of each kind a
[00:03:07] robotic uh complex
[00:03:10] of robotic of complex robotic which of course we are going to
[00:03:13] of see right now already
[00:03:16] completed as
[00:03:20] we move through the
[00:03:21] of completed of sections the next phase
[00:03:23] of the project was already taken shape rooms stood ready to
[00:03:27] receive sophisticated medical equipment. why specialized units
[00:03:31] awaited the teams that will soon bring them to
[00:03:33] life.
[00:03:38] every corridor, every unit, every department and every installed
[00:03:42] machine tells a story of preparation for the patients who will eventually
[00:03:46] work through his doors, beginning with the accident and emergency
[00:03:49] of unit, where the CMD introduced me to advanced treatment
[00:03:53] a technologies designed to improve patient's health outcomes. this place is
[00:03:57] the
[00:03:57] a entrance for the accident. and the emergency
[00:04:01] session
[00:04:01] of the hospital, so they coming from
[00:04:04] here, a brief stopover,
[00:04:08] yeah, you see, then they will move this way, mean for
[00:04:10] emergency, yes, will move this
[00:04:14] way, we have the triage room
[00:04:18] where we sort out the patients based on the severity
[00:04:22] of their
[00:04:23] of problems, some people can be stabilized here, if it is very minor
[00:04:27] problem, they can even
[00:04:28] of go from here, some people can be to the word from here,
[00:04:32] while the ones that require accident and emergency care will
[00:04:35] now be moved
[00:04:37] of to the accident and emergency word
[00:04:41] over 15 consulting rooms, over 15
[00:04:44] consulting rooms on this line, left right, left
[00:04:47] right,
[00:04:52] a significant part
[00:04:53] of the hospitals design focuses on matana and child health
[00:04:56] care, the
[00:04:57] of neonatal intensive care unit is being... develop to provide specialized
[00:05:01] of support for
[00:05:03] of premature babies and newborns requiring critical
[00:05:05] care, attinatal
[00:05:09] section, so the antenatal women. they
[00:05:13] stay here to receive you the internetal
[00:05:17] talk cancelling and then these are consulting room
[00:05:20] after which the doctors see
[00:05:23] them this place for
[00:05:27] families facing complicated pregnancies or fragile
[00:05:31] newborn conditions, access to specialized care can make the
[00:05:35] difference between uncertainty and hope. the maternity boards of modern
[00:05:39] labor and surgical facilities designed to support safe. deliveries
[00:05:43] and emergency obstatric procedures, this is a
[00:05:46] postnatal word, after delivery
[00:05:50] we admit the women here after
[00:05:53] delivery, this is one, two, three
[00:05:57] and four, and everyone is just like
[00:06:00] this,
[00:06:01] like this, yes, beyond physical
[00:06:05] illness, the hospital also recognizes another growing health careare
[00:06:08] need, mental health, dedicated spaces are
[00:06:12] created to support patients requiring psychiatric and psychological
[00:06:16] care a structured clinical environment. when we talk about mental health, people
[00:06:20] think that
[00:06:20] it is mad people. you know
[00:06:23] there are a lot of mental health issues, even depression, if you
[00:06:27] sess everyone here, you will find out that one or two may have a
[00:06:31] mental health challenge. also, you know, there's also drug
[00:06:35] addiction that is r to, so rehabilitation was to
[00:06:39] take place here inside this, yes.
[00:06:43] One the important support systems being developed is the hospital's
[00:06:46] oxygen plant to support emergency care, surgery,
[00:06:50] intensive care and neonatal services. Okay, the scope the work is
[00:06:54] actually massive in terms of scope,
[00:06:58] areas cover, there's virtually no
[00:07:00] field, but no field of medicine
[00:07:04] yes in terms of everyday use, everyday practice that
[00:07:08] isn't touched from the theaters to independent medical
[00:07:11] plants. the gas plants units to the words
[00:07:15] everything to the Nicu, the Miku, the ICUs
[00:07:19] everything is covered in the place and it's
[00:07:22] actually very massive and being very well
[00:07:25] implemented and the diagnostic center and the diagnostic
[00:07:29] center in terms the equipment what have you got to say
[00:07:33] top much talk much talk much
[00:07:36] equipment from everything you you've already seen them talkch
[00:07:40] everything you have from the beds. to the uh
[00:07:43] the CT unit at the radiology there
[00:07:47] seements that's about the world's best you have yes
[00:07:51] you have the siemence products the ct the MRI we have
[00:07:55] there the x-ray units the
[00:07:57] mamo the the mamo yes all
[00:07:59] them the construction exercise
[00:08:03] features comprehensive location the
[00:08:05] entire uh medical
[00:08:08] facility
[00:08:10] the uh the structures and
[00:08:14] then retrouding and equiping with state the
[00:08:18] heart equipment uh the as i said
[00:08:21] earlier it featured innovation civil works and
[00:08:25] then equipment installation now all the
[00:08:29] department generally were renovated and
[00:08:33] we keep with modern equipment we have
[00:08:36] the surgical work features
[00:08:40] four different theaters.
[00:08:56] uh modern facility or
[00:08:58] with current facility the that the the hospital
[00:09:02] laboratory to was fully furnished uh fully
[00:09:06] equip as well likewise uh the Nicu
[00:09:09] is modern facility. you can have look
[00:09:13] at this one, we also have the uh the maternity one
[00:09:17] with - fully equip with uh uh
[00:09:20] bs and the modern equipment as
[00:09:24] well, more importantly uh we have
[00:09:28] the uh the
[00:09:32] gas plant, the gas plant which is an essential part
[00:09:35] the hospital uh facility in
[00:09:38] which uh each the necessary.
[00:09:43] were uh equipped with medical gas
[00:09:46] facility, the oxygen, the valuum as well
[00:09:50] as the medical gas, medical
[00:09:52] year itself, we have the icu, that is
[00:09:56] the part,
[00:09:57] it is fully equip with electric belt, yeah,
[00:10:01] but
[00:10:02] yes,
[00:10:07] yes, so and then we have the diagon center that is the
[00:10:10] geology complex. going there now yeah we are going there
[00:10:14] so we have the city we can look
[00:10:16] at we have
[00:10:20] the uh we have the mamo and we have
[00:10:23] the MRI MRI.
[00:10:26] Yes, one the most ambitious features planned for the
[00:10:30] facility is the robotic surgery and alcology
[00:10:33] center, it is the first of his kind by any Nigerian state, one the
[00:10:37] landmark um projects of his
[00:10:40] excellency, distinguished senator, the governor of
[00:10:44] Himo state, this building actually was started six months
[00:10:47] ago from foundation up to this point, now it
[00:10:51] is even fully equipped, the robot is here so... there will be robot
[00:10:55] assisted surgeries, people will, in fact at the
[00:10:59] back there will be a helepad, because yes at the back
[00:11:03] the robotic, so the very soon it
[00:11:06] will, yes, for the helicopters that will bring people
[00:11:10] from outside the
[00:11:12] state, yeah, because of
[00:11:16] emergencies, this center attracts people from all over the
[00:11:19] world, it's not just so you're already looking at
[00:11:22] this this tertiary
[00:11:26] hospital yes also um playing his part
[00:11:30] in terms of reducing reversing medical tourism
[00:11:34] reversing medical tourism tourism yes yes it to reverse
[00:11:38] medical tourism in this place to be man by a professor
[00:11:42] robotic surgeon uh he comes here
[00:11:46] regularly he uh himself with his team of a
[00:11:49] surgeons they'll be carrying out complex yes
[00:11:52] even UK, US, they'll be coming to
[00:11:56] carry out complex surgeries, robotic surgeries here
[00:12:00] from time to time, and that's why, um, that
[00:12:04] need for the hellipad came up and his excellency
[00:12:07] approved the back of that place for that
[00:12:10] purpose, is just few weeks from his grand
[00:12:13] opening, once fully operational, robotic assisted surgery
[00:12:17] will significantly expand the hospital's capacity to perform highly
[00:12:21] precise and minimum invasive procedures.
[00:12:25] the technology is already in place with the remaining installations
[00:12:29] nearing completion. leading this pionearing
[00:12:33] initiative is professor Kinsley, the UK trained
[00:12:37] robotic surgeon who made history by performing West Africa's first
[00:12:40] robotic assisted prostate cancer surgery using the davinci
[00:12:44] surgical system. i came here and when
[00:12:48] i saw things that
[00:12:52] distinguished my governor. was doing,
[00:12:56] he didn't need to tell anything anymore, so at
[00:13:00] the end of it he asked me if I
[00:13:04] could develop what I do hearingly must say
[00:13:07] it, and I said yes, I'll do it,
[00:13:11] and everything he promised, he
[00:13:15] delivered it, and he personally made
[00:13:18] sure that I didn't have any complaint,
[00:13:22] and I can tell you that the emo robotic center. uh
[00:13:26] is modeled after the similar
[00:13:29] center in uh
[00:13:32] uh hamburg okay so my friends when i went out there
[00:13:36] to meet them that was where i started having this concept of
[00:13:40] boutique clinic boutique
[00:13:44] surgical clinic where a patient will
[00:13:47] coming and feel like you're at
[00:13:50] home and you walk in you walk out same
[00:13:54] way as still came in and that's the concept, that's why
[00:13:58] this is not called robotic hospital, because
[00:14:01] hospital has negative psychological impact a
[00:14:05] patient, and i've researched on the psychological impact of
[00:14:09] cancer on patients um
[00:14:13] in my unit where i currently head the
[00:14:17] cancer department as well, so it's
[00:14:20] called the robotic clinic for reason
[00:14:24] and... His Excellency asked me if
[00:14:28] I could deliver the project within six months
[00:14:31] and I
[00:14:33] can, I don't know the record, you will tell
[00:14:37] me if there's been any of this type of building
[00:14:41] in this country that was achieved in four
[00:14:45] months. With his expertise guiding the program, state
[00:14:48] officials believe many Nigerians who currently seek specialized treatment
[00:14:52] abroad may soon find world-class care.
[00:14:55] other much closer to home, the robot is inside
[00:14:58] of here, the main robot is inside of here, and other
[00:15:02] accessories, assesses,
[00:15:03] that's this
[00:15:04] one
[00:15:09] and and this one as well, so this is what
[00:15:13] professor Queme and his
[00:15:16] team will be using,
[00:15:19] to attend to
[00:15:23] people need special care. in emo state
[00:15:26] and beyond the borders of IMO state a lot
[00:15:30] is happening in the health sector in the emo state
[00:15:34] and the whole idea is to be able to take
[00:15:38] good care of people
[00:15:42] health-wise, the governor is spiaring no
[00:15:45] effort, it's brought in
[00:15:48] expensive top the range equipment for the
[00:15:52] purpose of delivering health
[00:15:55] careare a manner that is
[00:15:59] world class and the CMD has told
[00:16:02] us so much about the efforts that the governor has
[00:16:06] made. Behind
[00:16:10] the scenes, the sound of construction form part the story,
[00:16:13] wheel loaders transported crush stones and construction materials
[00:16:17] to level the ground in preparation for additional
[00:16:21] structure, helipad. The facility is intended
[00:16:24] to support faster emergency transfers and improve
[00:16:28] response capability for critically ill patients requiring urgent
[00:16:32] specialist attention. I'm standing right now at the back
[00:16:35] the emostate special. hospitals
[00:16:39] robotic and oncology center and the governor of Himo
[00:16:42] state plans to build ellipat
[00:16:46] behind the center, this is because this
[00:16:50] center is projected to
[00:16:53] bring in foreign experts led
[00:16:57] by professor uh
[00:17:01] is a world class robotic surgeon based in the United
[00:17:04] Kingdom, there would be many people it
[00:17:08] is expected from different parts of Nigeria and some
[00:17:12] of those people will need emergency
[00:17:15] attention and that is why early pad
[00:17:19] is going to be built at the back of this robotic
[00:17:23] center so that those who need emergency
[00:17:26] care can be brought to the center
[00:17:30] uh via by air that is through the helicopters.
[00:17:34] it is clear that this project represents new model. for specialist health care
[00:17:38] infrastructure, where advanced technology, skill professionals
[00:17:42] and modern facilities come together under one roof. healthcare
[00:17:46] transformation is not confined to one location. across imos
[00:17:49] state, different hospitals are contributing their own chapters to much
[00:17:53] larger story. my next stop,
[00:17:57] omuma in oru is local government area, where
[00:18:01] another remarkable transformation is going on, at the
[00:18:05] Michael Uzodima Memorial Hospital in omoma named
[00:18:09] after governor hope usodima's late father. the hospital represent
[00:18:13] another important chapter in the state's brother effort to rebuild public health
[00:18:17] care infrastructure. while every facility
[00:18:20] tells his own story, they are all connected by one
[00:18:24] shared vision, creating hospitals that are better equipped to
[00:18:28] meet the health care needs or the people they serve. waiting to
[00:18:32] receive me was chief medical director, Dr. Anthony
[00:18:35] Azuwenye who guided me, through the hospital and explain the
[00:18:39] remarkable changes taking place across the facility. as we
[00:18:43] proceed with our evaluation of
[00:18:46] governor hopusodima's work in the head sector.
[00:18:50] today we are in umuma and
[00:18:53] umuma and i have with me the chief medical
[00:18:57] director the general hospital in
[00:19:01] umuma town. dr. azunye
[00:19:05] Anthony. CMD, it's a
[00:19:09] pleasure meeting you and um, we will be
[00:19:12] happy to go into the inner recessis of your hospital.
[00:19:16] Our first stop was the ophalmology department. Can you explain
[00:19:20] to us, what aut? Here traditional
[00:19:24] diagnostic methods are gradually giving way to state the heart
[00:19:27] technology, enabling clinicians to detect eye
[00:19:31] conditions earlier, make more accurate diagnosis and
[00:19:35] deliver more effective treatment. meter what what
[00:19:39] what does that mean for confirming uh lens
[00:19:43] prescriptions okay yes okay so this is the fonduse
[00:19:46] camera fonduse camera yes fonduse camera for checking
[00:19:50] the internal structures inside the eye and then this slate
[00:19:54] number slates slate number microscopy then we
[00:19:57] have um the trial lens box okay
[00:20:01] uh the thonometer that's the puff non contact
[00:20:05] contact is latest Yes, previously you
[00:20:09] need to patis introduce something to
[00:20:13] be able to get the pressure the eyeball, but recently
[00:20:16] this
[00:20:19] patient
[00:20:25] can imagine, so it has
[00:20:29] made your job lot easier, no stress, you will just do your work,
[00:20:33] they go, so how many these can you give me to
[00:20:36] legos? basically uh frames, optical frames and
[00:20:40] there are no prescriptions inside, no lenses
[00:20:44] yet, basically just optical frames which we use
[00:20:47] for the final.
[00:20:50] glasses, so the the patient can
[00:20:53] choose one that i want, for the doctors, nurses
[00:20:57] and other healthcare professionals, perhaps the greatest transformation cannot
[00:21:01] be measured by the arrival of new machines alone, as a medical
[00:21:05] practitioner, you read about it, you see it
[00:21:08] action and you see how many lives it saves and
[00:21:12] how it comes to intervent in saving lives, lives of
[00:21:16] babies that seated to would have died
[00:21:19] without in. prevention is break though that we cannot
[00:21:23] thank the governor enough related
[00:21:27] oxygen supply so you don't have
[00:21:31] need most times for bringing in
[00:21:34] oxygen you socket to the
[00:21:37] oxygen from the oxygen yes so it's already piped to
[00:21:41] this place we we have oxygen production
[00:21:44] units at the three designated locations in emo
[00:21:48] states we have one at all teaching hospital, he
[00:21:51] must teaching hospital, they have one at the now federal medical
[00:21:55] center of okay, so we'll get supply from, so
[00:21:59] once you receive the supplies, you then pipe them to
[00:22:02] the words, care
[00:22:06] unit, wow, intensive care unit, and everything
[00:22:10] is looking new here as well,
[00:22:14] wonderful, this is great,
[00:22:17] is working, yes,
[00:22:21] somebody far away, i like to see new
[00:22:24] things, can
[00:22:27] to as see me one for each patient, there this for this patient
[00:22:31] and these are ventilating machines, oh for automatic
[00:22:35] ventilationize the patient,
[00:22:39] supply oxygen, and this this
[00:22:42] equipment will make the big difference between life
[00:22:46] and death, changes everything st. that
[00:22:50] used to be that patients get into that segment and they don't come back to
[00:22:54] life, very thing
[00:22:57] the past, something
[00:23:00] anybody that understands
[00:23:02] healthcare very proud of, so as head
[00:23:05] professional saying that you are
[00:23:09] a better position to save
[00:23:13] lives, what what what does this do to
[00:23:16] you personally and for all of us working here?
[00:23:20] gives us this satisfaction, sense
[00:23:23] of satisfaction that all your efforts are not
[00:23:26] in, very happy
[00:23:30] you know walking here, yes uh,
[00:23:33] because uh, when
[00:23:36] the the posting came, i was told to come to
[00:23:40] this place, very, very
[00:23:43] happy, i'm going to
[00:23:45] work community.
[00:23:50] and a facility, he
[00:23:54] built, that is, one the best,
[00:23:58] not the best in the whole the
[00:24:00] state, because some
[00:24:03] the run yes,
[00:24:05] go now, so somement that we have here, the all
[00:24:08] state the arts and environment,
[00:24:12] everything is super, nobody would come here and
[00:24:16] say that you be happy to to work here.
[00:24:20] Another notable feature was the availability of backup equipment. In
[00:24:24] healthcare, preparation is
[00:24:26] essential.
[00:24:30] Our tour then led us to the pharmacy department where I met young
[00:24:34] pharmacist whose enthusiasm reflected the renewed optimism
[00:24:38] within the hospital. For someone entrusted with
[00:24:42] ensuring the safe and timely availability of medicines. The
[00:24:45] improvements were more than cosmetic. They represented a working
[00:24:49] environment design. to support better health service delivery and patient
[00:24:52] satisfaction is doing very well to see that we
[00:24:56] have all we need to our best services you don't
[00:25:00] suffer from
[00:25:04] um drug is sufficiency i said hotland is doing
[00:25:08] very well to provide all we need and that's includes the
[00:25:10] drugs that we don't have issues where
[00:25:14] we have able to get how do
[00:25:18] you see the environment generally? from your own
[00:25:21] place,
[00:25:25] the hospital was recovered from years of deterioration before
[00:25:29] undergoing renovation, rehabilitation and re-equipment.
[00:25:33] Today the transformation extends across multiple departments, creating
[00:25:37] an environment design to support improved healthcare delivery.
[00:25:41] This is the first state-owned
[00:25:44] robotic center in Nigeria, and the governor
[00:25:48] as pared no effort. to bring in some the best
[00:25:52] state the heart equipment, not just for
[00:25:56] this robotic center, but for the
[00:26:00] hospital in its entireity. and the governor has
[00:26:04] also shown tremendous focus on
[00:26:07] training and retraining of
[00:26:11] hospital workers so that they can
[00:26:14] deliver optimum service
[00:26:18] for the good people of hemost states and as the CMD told
[00:26:22] me the health insurance that is already in
[00:26:25] place will ensure that health
[00:26:29] care is wholesome is
[00:26:32] accessible, is affordable and qualitative in
[00:26:36] emo
[00:26:36] state.
[00:26:59] every day across forests, highways, and
[00:27:02] villages, brave men and women stand watch so that Nigeria can
[00:27:06] sleep. They leave their families behind, confront danger head
[00:27:10] on and make sacrifices many of us will never see.
[00:27:14] Yet the enemies of our nation continue their assault. They target
[00:27:18] our children, they murder innocent citizens, they force families
[00:27:22] from their homes, they turn thriving communities into places of
[00:27:26] fear and uncertainty. Their goal is simple,
[00:27:30] to break our spirit, divide our... people and steal the
[00:27:34] future of our nation, but Nigeria is stronger than
[00:27:37] terror, as we demand greater accountability, stronger security
[00:27:41] measures and more effective action from those entrusted with our safety,
[00:27:45] we must also play our part, support our security
[00:27:49] forces, salute their gallantry, stand with those
[00:27:52] stand for us, if you see something, say
[00:27:56] something, let us be our brothers keeper, we must
[00:28:00] never surrender to fear, despair. or hopelessness, this
[00:28:04] is not the time for division, not by tribe, not
[00:28:07] by religion, not by region, not by
[00:28:11] political party, because terror recognizes no
[00:28:15] ethnicity, no faith and no ideology, its
[00:28:18] enemy is all of us, and together, united as
[00:28:22] one people, we can defeat it for our children, for
[00:28:26] our communities, for a future, for
[00:28:29] Nigeria, join the movement, stand stand for our
[00:28:33] country, stand for one another.
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