We Have Improved Power Supply In UPTH- MD

Management of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) has said regular power supply has improved in the five hospital.
The management said the hospital can now boost of 20 hours of power supply in its wards, departments and theaters to ensure adequate medicare delivery.
Chief Medical Director, UPTH, Prof Henry Arinze Ugboma, stated this to newsmen during a media parley in the hospital.
Prof Ugboma said the regular Power supply is important to the hospital as it plans to be one of the best medical facility in sub-Sahara Africa.
“We are looking at alternative source of energe in the hospital to generate 20-24 hours power supplys”, he said.
He further said, UPTH is planning with Port Harcourt Electricity Development Company (PHEDC) to get about 20 hours of uninterrupted power supply.
He also said Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) had agreed to install a gas turbine plant in the hospital to improve on power supply.
According to Ugboma, UPTH is perfecting a five years strategic plan, making the hospital the best in Sub Sahara Africa.
Represented by Chairman Medical Advisory Committee CMAC, Prof Lucky Onotia, Prof Ugboma said the essence of the 5 year’s plan is to achieve certain goals in research and service delivery to the public.
He noted that some projects are ongoing in the hospital in removal of tumor of the spine.
UPTH, he said, is training doctors, Nurses and other professionals in areas of specialties to improve the quality of medicare service delivery.
Ugboma noted that the hospital would not achieve its goals without building on human and health care resources.
He said UPTH wants to stop medical tourism in the region by focussing in patients healthcare delivery.
He attributed inadequate funding as a major challenge faced by the management of the hospital, adding that with improved funding, UPTH is aspiring to be a world class hospital in Nigeria.

By; Chinedu Wosu