Akwa Ibom to sponsor deaf and dumb children for operation in India

The Akwa Ibom State Government has restated its readiness to sponsor five dumb and deaf children from the state to India for treatment.
Governor Godswill Akpabio, who stated this Saturday when the Managing  Director of Primus International Super Speciality Hospital, India, Nitin Dewan, paid him a courtesy visit at the Governor’s Office, Uyo, said the successful treatment of the patients would convince the people of the state of the need for the state to partner with the hospital.
Governor Akpabio therefore directed “the state Commissioner of Health to select five children born deaf and dumb and send to Primus Super Speciality Hospital, India for treatment, where a mechanism would be planted on them to enable them to speak and hear, which the state government would be ready to sponsor them on the trip.”
He further said that the state government would partner and sign a Memorandum of Understanding for surgeons from the hospital to assist in the specialist hospital in the state, which is ongoing, at Itam in Uyo.
The governor explained that the specialist hospital in the state would have a mini specialist quarters and mini hotels in the hospital premises for the medical team, stressing that the Primus Super Speciality Hospital is a private hospital doing very well in India.
According to him, the Indian hospital is starting a branch in Cairo and Abuja and with the visit of the surgeons in the state, something good would come out in the health sector.
He said the specialist hospital in the state, to be completed next year, would be well built to check capital flight from Akwa Ibom State to India.
Dewan, who was accompanied by Chief Research Officer of the hospital, Pinto Jayraj, and International Business Development Officer, Ramech Chaudhary, said the visit to the state was to contribute to the health sector of the state and country.
He thanked Akpabio for the opportunity given to them to visit the state.