EKITI VARSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL GETS NEW THEATRE, COMMENCES FREE SURGERY IN MAY
Written by Lere Olayinka   
Monday, 19 April 2010
Ekiti State Governor, Engr Segun Oni has  directed the authorities of the University Teaching  Hospital , Ado-Ekiti (UTHA) to  immediately commence  the process of taking over and utilizing  the hospital’s  newly completed ultra modern theatre complex, directing the Ministry of Health to organize a Free Surgical Festival in May  to commemorate the completion  of the new theatre.
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Wale Ojo-Lanre said in a statement that Governor Oni, said while inspecting the  newly installed facilities at  the  theatre and intensive care  unit  of the hospital that the completion of the installation of  state- of-the –art  facilities  would further reinforce  the  health care delivery system in the state as the Teaching Hospital will now have the capability to perform  some of the most complex surgical operations .
He also directed the Ministry of Health to organize a Free Surgical Festival in May  to commemorate the completion  of the new theatre, stressing that all patients requiring surgery in the month of May would be treated free of charge.
Oni said as part of efforts to ensure that the Teaching Hospital imbibes the culture of utilising best practises, his administration would seek International  Standard Organisation (ISO) certification  for the new  theatre  just like it did for the State’s Central Medical Stores which is presently the only state owned drug store in Nigeria  that  is ISO certified.
The Governor, who  expressed happiness that his administration was taking health care to the next level through the provision of  necessary infrastructure and  facilities  as well as the recruitment of  experience  personnel in the heath sector said the recent indices released by national and global bodies which places the state at the apex of the national ladder in health services was a result of  painstaking  planning and  execution of  a carefully designed roadmap.
Governor Oni who inspected the newly completed Four Modular Theatre Units, recovery rooms, doctors and nurses waiting rooms and  the intensive care unit which provides each  patient with ventilators and monitors also supervised progress of work at the dialysis centre donated by the communication giant, MTN.
Also speaking, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr Femi Thomas disclosed that  a 250-KVA  Generator has been provided  exclusively for the  theatre and intensive care unit .
He disclosed that the rehabilitation and reequipping   of the 39 year old theatre was executed at a cost of N135 million, adding that fumigation of the complex would commence immediately as a first step towards  the commencement of movement to the complex on 24th of this month.