The Federal Medical Center, Hong in Adamawa has officially commenced operations and opened clinical services to the general public.
The hospital is expected to render Medical Services to people of Northern Adamawa, Borno and parts of Chad and Cameroon republics.
Adamawa State now has two Federal Medical Centers in Mubi and Hong local governments respectively. This is after the federal government upgraded FMC Yola to a teaching Hospital.
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The Central and Northern senatorial zones of the state formally ravaged by the Boko Haram Insurgency have now been turned into medical terrorist centers by the Buhari administration.
Clinical Services were flagged off at the premises of the hospital in Hong town. Its its medical director Professor Yakubu Nyandaiti
expressed confidence that the hospital would ease the difficulties faced by patients including those from Cameroon and chad Republics.
He added that the hospital which was upgraded in 2020 is well equipped with a state-of-the-art facilities to provide effective and efficient services to the area.
“The hospital has well equipped 100-bed mother and child friendly complex with state of the art equipment with 20 incubators, ultrasound machines, oxygen concentrators, ventilators and equipment theatre units with 120 KVA solar energy that power the complex.
“It has a 23 bed maternal and child referral centers, a 14 bed accident and emergency unit and a patient waiting area. It has a 22 body equipped mortuary, a functional oxygen plant with the capacity to supply 8.5 cubic units of oxygen per hour. The hospital has built 10 units of 2 bedroom houses for staff and a modern incinerator,” he said.
Various speakers thanked president Buhari and the the secretary to the federal government Boss Mustafa for the establishment of the Federal Medical Center which they believe will create more employment for residents as well as change the economy of the zone.
The member representing Hong Gombe Federal constituency in the House of Representatives who sponsored the bill for the establishment of the health center, Yusuf Buba said the facility will bring succour to his constituents.
Also speaking, the chairman of Hong local government, Inuwa Warada commended the federal government, Adamawa State government and the SGF for ensuring the dream of the people in having a tertiary health care facility in the area has become a reality.
The chairman who was represented by the secretary of the local government, Aliyu Sa’ad noted that with the commencement of clinical services today all speculations regarding the hospital shall be put to rest.
Business activities will pick up in Hong town as the federal government has earmarked over 2 billion naira in the 2023 budget for the hospital which is expected to employ over 3 000 staff.
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