Medical varsity will boost healthcare delivery – Udom
Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom state said the Thompson and Grace Medical University (TGMC) being situated in the state will boost healthcare delivery in the country.
The governor stated this at the weekend during the foundation laying ceremony of TGMC’s senate and general administration building, and the community primary healthcare hospital of the university located in Afaha Obong, an outskirt of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
Governor Emmanuel, who was represented by his deputy, Mr Moses Frank Ekpo, said, “I am particularly delighted that with the strategic objective of Thompson and Grace Medical University, there is every reason to believe that this institution will become a centre of excellence that will further fast track the process of technology transfer in the vital area of quality healthcare service delivery.”
According to him, the project of this magnitude comes with a lot of value addition and multiplier effect especially in the area of job creation.
“As from projected statistics, I am told that when fully operational, this medical city has the capacity to accommodate up to 35,000 workers in what appears to be one of the biggest foreign direct investment drives in this part of the world,” he said.
He assured the management team of the T&G Medical University and its promoters that “Our state government fully identifies with this project and will continue to do whatever is required to provide the convivial environment for the success of this great initiative’’, he said.
German Envoy to Nigeria, Dr Bernhard Schlagheck, who led another German medical expert, Prof Uwe KochGromus, Executive Dean of the Medical Faculty of University Medical Center Eppendorf (UKE), Germany, to the ceremony, said his government and people of Germany were concerned about the health service delivery in Nigeria.
The Envoy who was represented by Mr Christopher Wenzel, Head of Corporation at the Embassy, said Germany is “Willing to support this kind of project designed to improve the health standard of the people of Nigeria.’’