BMSH: RSG Plans Work On New Doctors’ Quarters

The Rivers State
Government has promised to build new residential quarters for doctors of the state-owned Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital (BMSH).
The Commissioner for Health, Dr Theophilus Odagme who made the disclosure at a meeting with the management of the BMSH in Port Harcourt, said the state Governor Chief Nyesom Wike had given the approval for the demolition of the two old residential quarters.
Odagme said the governor gave the approval after a cursory look at the report of the committee on the hospital’s residential quarters fire outbreak, adding that the doctors would be relocated in about two weeks time to pave way for the commencement of work.
Odagme also stated that the state government would soon embark on the renovation of general hospitals across the state to further enhance effective healthcare delivery in the state.
While pleading with the resident doctors not to scale down their services in the hospital, Odame said the government was poised to engage House officers and interns, assuring that the list which has been sent to the Civil Service Commission for documentation would soon get the approval of the governor.
The commissioner further reminded the doctors that the country was going through financial distress and urged them to make demands that were reasonable and in tandem with the new visionary plan of providing accessible healthcare to the people of the state.