UCTH N68m Isolation Centre Contract debt: Out of court settlement fails
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By Ike Uchechukwu
Following the break down of settlement talks between the Management of University Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH and Contractor, Obi Achara Nigeria Ltd, a High Court sitting in Calabar yesterday issued a consent to pre-trial and hearing notice to management Board of the Hospital.
Vanguard learned that the failed out of court settlement talks was about the contract sum in the tune of N68 million after the contractor ( Obi Achara Nigeria Ltd) built an isolation centre at the hospital.
• Reliance On Cylinders For Oxygen Responsible For Shortage – Okwesil • Health Institutions Depending On Vendors
For Supply Endanger Patients – Amah • Teaching Hospitals, FMC Must Have Oxygen Generating Plants • Lagos Commissions Oxygen Plant, Uses 300 Cylinders Daily • Consumption Of Medical Gas In Rivers State Shots Up • Patients At Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital Consume 100 Cylinders Daily – Maikudi • UCTH Has Enough Oxygen For COVID-19 Patients, Others
Twenty four hours after the country, last Thursday, recorded 23 Coronavirus (COVID-19)-induced deaths- the highest single-day count of fatalities, situation degenerated further last Friday with the number of infections soaring to 1, 867- the highest single-day count since the pandemic broke out in Nigeria.
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As reported on 10 December 2020: In Bamenda town, Mezam department, Northwest region, the provincial government reportedly suspended partnerships between an INGO and Santa Maria Soledad Catholic Hospital Bamenda, as well as other health facilities across the region. The government stated that the reason for suspending the INGOs partnerships was that the Ministry of Public Health was awaiting “the definition of the framework of activities”. Source: Mimi Mefo Info
26 December 2020: In Bambui township, Tubah sub-division, Northwest region, members of the Cameroon Armed Forces stormed the Tubah District Hospital, killing a patient and bike rider who was transporting the patient to hospital. Source: Mimi Mefo Info
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Last week, the death of Nigeria’s first professor of criminology, Femi Odekunle, was announced. Odekunle was also a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption. At first, his demise was slung on complications from the COVID-19 disease until a more detailed report narrated that he actually died from a lack of oxygen in the hospital facility – University Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada – where he was admitted.
Just a few weeks before he passed on, consultant neurosurgeon, Prof. Matthias Nnadi of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, also died of what was described as an acute exacerbation of asthma. One of the few experts in his field that Nigeria could boast of, Nnadi tested positive for COVID-19, although his unfortunate death was a consequence of a lack of oxygen.