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Buhari to commercialise State House clinic


The State House Permanent Secretary, Jalal Arabi, says the State House Medical Centre (SHMC), volition hold upward commercialised to augment authorities allocation.

Arabi disclosed this on Wed inward a disceptation past times Mr Attah Esa, the Deputy Director, Information inward the State House, Abuja.

The Permanent Secretary was reacting to a recent media written report on the province of the Medical Centre.

This is coming afterwards reports that patients at the State House Medical Centre were groaning over lack of drugs together with equipment at the facility.

The clinic is meant to serve Nigeria’s president, vice president together with their families too equally employees of the presidency together with other privileged individuals.

Zahra, President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughter, had reportedly lashed out on her Instagram trouble concern human relationship at the province of affairs inward the clinic despite huge amounts of coin provided for it. 

She wrote: “More than N3billion budgeted for the State House clinic together with workers at that topographic point don’t possess got the equipment to operate with? Why?

“Where is the coin going to? Medication exclusively stocked 1 time since the get-go of the year? Why? State House Permanent Secretary delight answer.

“Why isn’t at that topographic point uncomplicated Paracetamol, gloves, syringes… Why produce patients/staff possess got to purchase what they bespeak inward the province trouble solid clinic?”

In an apparent response, the Permanent Secretary denied that funds allocated to the clinic were beingness diverted.

Arabi said the SHMC volition hold upward repositioned to offering qualitative together with efficient services. 

The disceptation read: “Reacting to a recent media written report on the province of the Medical Centre, the Permanent Secretary said the management volition amidst other things seek the commercialisation of the Centre to boost its revenue together with augment the appropriation it receives from the authorities inward the quest for a amend qualitative service.”

“The Centre is the exclusively wellness centre inward Abuja where patients are non required to pay whatever dime earlier consultation. 

“In other authorities hospitals inward Abuja, patients are required to pay for consultation, treatment, laboratory tests together with others but that has non been the illustration amongst the State House Medical Centre. 

“The Centre offers costless services, nobody pays a kobo for infirmary card, consultations or prescriptions together with this has taken a toll on the subvention the Centre receives from the government. 

“We possess got some of the best equipment inward the country. For instance, to keep the MRI together with other scan machines, nosotros pass merely about N2 1000000 monthly. Yet nosotros produce non accuse a dime for those who require MRI scans inward the clinic.”

“We possess got already created a NHIS desk at the clinic where patients volition hold upward required to authentic their profile. If their HMOs are registered inward other hospitals they volition hold upward required to transfer to the Centre. 

“This is some other means through which nosotros tin boost revenue generation at the infirmary together with this has started yielding results because the stark reality is at that topographic point is no costless tiffin anywhere,” he said.  

‘‘I know people volition insinuate together with reach all sorts of reasons because they don’t enquire but it volition hold upward foolhardy together with madness for anybody inward his senses to defraud a medical centre of a kobo together with toying amongst people’s lives. 

“No sane mortal volition produce that, thence the truth of the affair is the infirmary is beingness run on  subvention together with appropriation; if it comes nosotros pile the drugs; but the truth is the drugs are ever overwhelmed past times the bring out of people who role the Centre, because it is non controlled.”



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