This development was revealed in a statement issued by the command’s spokesperson, Daniel Ndukwe, on Wednesday.
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It would be recalled that Lassa fever death came barely one week after the first death from the disease was reported at the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, Parklane involving a 75-year-old woman.
A medical team from the United States of America has donated medical equipment worth over $250,000 to facilitate the establishment of a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku Ozalla, Enugu State.
In a statement, the Founder of HPCI, Dr. Odiraa Nwankwo, who is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Jefferson University, Philadelphia, said they had assembled the required equipment/devices and supplies valued at above $250,000 and had strong support from the hospital leadership under Dr. Obinna Onodugo, the Chief Medical Director.
The Federal Government has approved the appointment of Dr. Obinna D. Onodugo as the New Chief Medical Director University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Enugu State.
The Managing Director/CEO of the Foundation, Ijeoma Aso, said that UBA places high priority on the health sector and that the donation to the hospitals was in fulfillment of the foundation’s key objective of improving the lives and well being of the communities where UBA has presence