Hospitals: A’Ibom Begins Upgrade Of Facilities

Government of Akwa
Ibom State, says it has commenced the replacement and upgrade of all equipment at state-owned hospitals across the state.
Governor Udom Emmanuel who made this known during this month’s Government House prayer held at the Latter House Chapel in Uyo, said the move was to enable the hospitals provide better health services to the people.
He said all necessary equipment ordered from United States of America for the upgrade were now ready and would soon arrive in the country.
The governor, who decried the high level of vandalism of public utilities especially electric transformers by hoodlums, said very soon, the long arm of the law would catch up with the criminals.
He called on youths in the state to be vigilant and desist from colluding with criminals and gangs from other states to perpetrate evil and rob the state of its infrastructures.
Emmanuel, enjoined the people to key into the government’s agricultural road map of cultivation of cocoa and other cash crops in order to generate income, even as he announced plans by the state government to be involved in direct produce buying from farmers to enable them get international price for their crops.
He promised that any community that donated land for agricultural or industrial purpose would be given priority in terms of employment.