By PATRICK ABANG Calabar
Against the backdrop of medical tourism, The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), Professor Ikpeme Ikpeme has said that the desire of his administration is to provide first class infrastructural upgrade in the teaching hospital in line with the mandate giving to him by the Federal Government.
Professor Ikpeme stated this on Friday while speaking with the Executive Council members of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) led by Commorade Gill Nsa, during a facility tour to the Radiography department of UCTH.
He said: “We need to invest in infrastructural upgrade , we need to serve our people to reduce medical tourism by getting more equipment and we have made appreciable progress”
“We want a health system where you are accountable, a system where you don’t have to know anybody to get service”
Ikpeme said “We will partner with the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ). We have the personnel and equipment. W are here to serve our people”.
He advised the new leadership of NUJ in Cross River State to carry all the stakeholders along in the discharge of his assignment.
Earlier in his remarks, the State Chairman of the Cross River State Council of NUJ, Comrade Gill Nsa, commended the Chief Medical Director of UCTH for his passion in providing first class Infrastructure, health care facility especially in the Radiography Department and other units in the hospital.
Places visited by the NUJ team include Utrasound Suites, mobile Xray, computerized tomography, Brain city Machine , Cubicle rooms etc.
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