BSUTH to Investigate Why Expensive Equipment are Abandoned by Past Mgt

George Okoh in Makurdi

The management of Benue State University Teaching Hospital Makurdi has constituted an investigation committee headed by Prof. Michael Agbir, charged with the responsibility of investigating and coming out with reasons surrounding the abandonment of some very expensive, vital and highly sophisticated medical equipment procured by the immediate-past administration.

According to the new Chief Medical Director of the teaching hospital, Dr. Stephen Hwande, yesterday in Makurdi said some of these abandoned medical equipment are: Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI) machine worth three to four hundred million naira.

He added that the magnetic resonance imaging or MRI is a noninvasive medical imaging test that produces detailed images of almost every internal structure in the human body, including the organs, bones, muscles and blood vessels. MRI scanners create images of the body using a large magnet and radio waves.

Hwande said the dialysis machine was abandoned, adding: “A dialysis machine is worth in millions of naira and it is used in dialysis that filters a patient’s blood to remove excess water and waste products when the kidneys are damaged, dysfunctional, or missing.

“Great concern here has been that the above medical equipment were imported and unveiled by the government but where abandoned.

“An interface with the current management has it that the said machines have never worked since the installation by the past administration.

“The investigation committee as charged by the hospital management shall duly investigate the reasons why the past administration procured such crucial and highly sophisticated medical tools worth hundreds of million naira that could have been very instrumental in saving lives but which unfortunately never worked nor test run since their installation, and thereafter proffer solutions on the way forward.”