Otti to turn Abia State into centre of health tourism in Nigeria

Gov. Alex Otti has approved the comprehensive upgrade and retrofitting of Abia Specialist Hospital Umuahia and Amachara General Hospital into a world -class medical facility.
Commissioner for Information, Okey Kanu, who disclosed this while briefing news men on the outcome of this week’s Executive Council meeting, stated that the move was in pursuit of the Governor’s quest to provide Abia residents with quality health care.
He added that the essence of the upgrade was to enable the healthcare facilities offer expanded scope of high quality medicare in certain special areas including internal medicine, cardiology, neurology, surgical services, general brain and spine surgeries among others.
The Commissioner also added that the Governor who had also given approval for the release of funds for the project, has equally mandated that the upgrade be done within 13 – 15 weeks, while assuring that Otti was desirous of converting Abia into the health tourism of Nigeria by upgrading facilities at the State hospitals.