The Federal Medical Centre, Jabi, Abuja has unveiled an ultra-modern administrative complex named after a former first lady, Hajiya Aisha Buhari.
Commissioning the building yesterday in Abuja, the immediate past Minister of State for Health, Joseph Ekumankama, said the four-storey building comprising 62 offices and other amenities would enhance the capacity and motivation of both clinical and non- clinical staff for excellent service delivery.
He said this would provide an opportunity to repurpose the old administrative building into a 50-bed space for the teeming patient population, while enhancing accreditation of post-graduate training for the clinical departments.
He commended the hospital for the achievements it recorded last year such as provision of highly specialised healthcare services like open-heart surgery, laser operations, spine surgery and significant infrastructural development.
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The Medical Director of the FMC, Prof Saad Ahmed, noted that with the provision of additional land space, the facility could work towards other service provision like expansion of emergency units, trauma centre, radiotherapy, nuclear medicine services and other high medical care.
He said the hospital needed some medical and support equipment to improve patient care such as the 1.5 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging Machine, computers and networking equipment, new 128-slice CT Scan Machine and Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) equipment.
He also called for increased budgetary provision to the facility, saying it would improve services and enhance health security not only in Abuja, but also for neighbouring states.
The Sarkin Gabas Adamawa and younger brother of Aisha Buhari, Dr Mahmood Halilu Ahmed (Modi), commended the chairman of the board of the hospital, Dr Alex Tosan Ideh, the registrar and other members of the management team for successfully constructing the complex.
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