Akwa Ibom State governor, Umo Eno, has immortalised his wife with the Patience Umo Eno Antenatal Complex at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH), describing it as a perfect Valentine’s gift for him and his family.
At the commissioning of the complex at the UUTH premises, the governor said the gesture has brought to bbare her wife, Patience Eno’s deep love for the family as a critical unit for the development of the society, which had informed her decision to establish her pet project, the Golden Initiative For All (lGIFA).
He said the antenatal complex compliments the government’s passion and dedication to reducing infant mortality rate, and to ensure that pregnant mothers are exposed to the best antenatal care in the state.
Governor Eno assured that his government was “working hard to reposition the Specialist Hospital to the standard that will drive medical tourism into the state, open up a medical corridor with a medical village, build a complete mother and child hospital with doctors’ quarters and other facilities that will promote medical tourism.”
He noted that though UUTH is a federal institution, most of the beneficiaries are indigenes of Akwa Ibom, and therefore announced a donation of N200 million to support the medical services in the hospital as well as N10 million for health insurance of needy patients in the hospital.
Governor Eno appreciated the Chief Medical Director (CMD), Prof Emem-Abasi Bassey, who is a former commissioner for Health in the State, for his transformational initiative in the hospital and assured him of government’s continuous support to enable him do more.
He also assured that, “Government will ensure continuous collaboration with the UUTH management and other medical stakeholders to actualise its development vision for the medical sector as encapsulated in the ARISE Agenda,” he said.
