Governor Bago Remodels, Expands IBB Specialist Hospital In Minna
Jide Oyekunle, Abuja
Niger State Governor, Umaru Bago, has commenced the remodeling and expansion of the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida Specialist Hospital (IBBSH), Minna.
The IBB Specialist Hospital, a state-owned tertiary facility established in 1995 and with the exception of the VIP wing, it has not witnessed any expansion since inception.
The Governor said upon completion, the remodeled hospital will boast of a General Outpatient Department (GOPD), patient’s waiting area, Intensive Care Unit, Accident and Emergency Unit, VIP Section, Trauma center, Doctors quarters, cafeteria and completion of retention wall.
Additional supplies would include Endoscopy instruments for lower tract: Endoscopy Tower, Monitor, Camera head, 30-degree Rigid Telescope, Resectoscope (bipolar and Monopolar), Erllik evacuator, Diathermy Pedal, Endoscopy graspers, and biopsy forceps.
Before now, parts of IBB Hospital’s equipment were outdated, with crumbling structures and inadequate facilities across its wards.
The hospital now is beginning to wear a new look, with the intervention of Governor Umaru Bago.
While Governor Bago’s administration is already converting the old Shiroro Hotel into the state’s first University Teaching Hospital, he said he recognized the imperative to remodel the IBB Hospital to a global standard.
This, he said, would be achieved by equipping it with state-of-the-art facilities such as Computed tomography (CT) scan machines, hemodialysis machines, fully automated laboratory machines, Echocardiography machines, ventilators, Defibrillators, Theatre operating lamps, operating tables, Ultrasound machines, Infusion pumps, and Digital x-ray machines.
All these will significantly improve the state’s health infrastructure, he said.
