UPTH Begins Medical Awareness Radio Programmes

The management of University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital UPTH, says the hospital has commenced  medical awareness radio programmes with the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria,  FRCN, ( Radio Nigeria) on its health-care service delivery to the masses.
The management said, during the radio programmes, all departments of the hospital where specialists in all fields are expected to give useful medical information to the public for necessary proactive and needful interventions.
The Chief Medical Director of UPTH, Prof Henry Arinze Ugboma disclosed this to The Tide shortly after its 2019 Thanksgiving and End of the Year Programme held at the hospital auditorium on Monday.
The UPTH Thanksgiving Service which has its Theme, “Cerebrating Gods Faithfulness and Fruitfulness”, was garced by the management and staff of the hospital chaired by the CMD.
Prof Ugboma said since assumption of office, there has been a strong synergy among the board,hospital management and the entire staff of the hospital.
He said UPTH under his watch had recorded a great deal of achievement in areas of staff welfare, employment, training and conference sponsorships.
Others, he said include, promotion of deserving staff, expansion of facilities and the commencement of work at all abandoned projects
The  Director said the UPTH Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, has improved, due to the introduction of computerized payments system three months ago.
He also said the hospital had recorded great deal of improvement on out. Patients monthly clinic attendance from 780 to 15,000, monthly admission from 500 to 900 patients, surgeries also rose from 400 to 900.
Other areas of achievement, include, Accidents and Emergency monthly  attendance rose from 450 to 1,500.
Prof Ugboma said as parts of its achievement, the hospital has acquired C – ARM, CT Scan and other critical equipment that are specialty relevant as it have reflected in all the clinical and non clinical departments.
He lamented that UPTH have staff deficits in many clinical department and management has begin the necessary consultations to undertake the necessary remediation while management  remains committed to the growth of the hospital.n
The Medical Director appeal to the staff to always reciprocate the gestures of the management by committing themselves meritoriously to the task of quality health care service delivery for the well being of then patients
On funding, he said, the hospital is faced  with paucity of funds due to many projects confronting them, making efforts to sustain quality and regular power supply and ensuring safety of staff and facilities.
Earlier, the Chairman, Medical Advisory  Committee CMAC UPTH, Prof Princewill Stanley said the Thanksgiving service and the End of year were aimed at thanking God for all his mercies to the hospital.
“Having gone through almost 365 days in 2019 in a very busy tertiary institution, we have every reason to say thank you our Father and our God., he said.
“We have come to celebrate celestial joy and excitement this season brings to us, looking back two years ago when the challenges of sustaining health care in this facility became a great source of worry , today when the faithfulness of God has appeared upon us chasing away the gloom of the past, it is not by might nor by power, but by the mercies of God that we have regained out strength as a five star tertiary institution”  Stanley said.
Highlights of the occasion was the cutting of cake which was graced by the Chairman, Board of management, UPTH, Alhaji Murkta Anka and the entire management and staff of the hospital