From: Uche Nnorom, Makurdi
Benue State House of Assembly has bemoaned the monumental decay of facilities at the State Teaching Hospital.
The House Committee on Health on oversight function at the hospital on Wednesday decried over the manner the former Chief Medical Director, CMD Dr. Terlumum Swende allowed equipment and amenities to rot away.
Chairman of the Committee Hon. Pharm Thomas Dugeri representing Kwande State Constituency said during a visit to the new CMD Dr. Stephen Hwande that the level of waste is ‘unpardonable’.
Dugeri observed that the last time the committee visited the hospital, they noticed glaringly, the issues of shortage of manpower, equipment,water supply and electricity.
“We had demanded for the MOU and the partners for the Radiology and the medical laboratory. But we are seeing things in a different dimension now. How did drugs worth over 200 million waste? How did these drugs come into the hospital? Even it had been given as a donation, it would have taken the hospital to heights.”
