Akwa Ibom State Governor Udom
Emmanuel, has lamented the huge amount of state’s funds sunk into the Ibom
Specialist Hospital but, which was eventually shut down in September, by the
consultants, who citied paucity of operational
funds.
At a special state executive council held last night,
which the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Cardio Care Medical
Services and Managers of Ibom Specialist Hospital, Dr Yemi Johnson attended, the
governor said a review of the hospital’s MoU is in the offing.
Emmanuel said he released $5 million take-off working
capital to the hospital when he assumed office in 2015 and later gave another N250
million, on the request of the managers, in addition to N1 billion paid in the last quarter of
2015, to the hospital equipment suppliers.
Emmanuel said he had to provide the needed funds in
good faith, to ensure that the hospital was running but expressed surprise that
when government started reconciling issues, it was discovered that so many
things were not working in the hospital.
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of
Cardio Care and Managers of Ibom Specialist Hospital, Dr Yemi Johnson, said
what happened was not a permanent shutdown.
He did not deny the amount paid so far by Governor
Emmanuel to his management team, but said they ran into difficulties following
crash in oil prices, the economic recession and devaluation of the naira which
made the original model difficult to function.
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