Kaduna – The Kaduna State Government says it will upgrade the Doka General Hospital along Kaduna-Abuja expressway to an Emergency Trauma Centre.
Prof. Jonathan Nok, the state Commissioner for Health and Human Resources, who unveiled the plan Monday in Kaduna, said this would address the treatment of accident cases along the road.
Nok said the decision was taken at the end of the State Executive Council meeting.
He said that the state government’s decision was intended to offer remedial measures in cases of accident along the road.
According to him, the state government will upgrade the hospital infrastructure with equipment and deploy qualify professionals to the hospital.
He said staff of the Doka hospital would in the interim be redeployed to hospitals within the state while the renovation and upgrade last.
According to him, the project management team from the State Ministry of Health will take over what he called civil facilities of the hospital.
“Our project on the account of this intervention is to address most of the incidents that take place along Abuja road where there are no highly technically functional hospitals to take care of victims.
“The belief is that after the upgrade the hospital would make serious input to treating of victims who for one reason or the other travel along Abuja-Kaduna road,” he said.
He said that the Doka hospital would be made one of the outposts of Emergency Response Centres where mobile numbers would be availed members of the public to call in cases of emergency.
He said the hospital would be equipped with four theatre rooms, life saving device and walk ways to move patients easily.
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said fully equipped ambulance would also be provided with life saving devices and fully operational theatre for the hospital.
He said the state government would also provide additional emergency response centres along Rigachikun-Zaria road, Kafanchan-Abuja road and Doka equipped with up-to-date ambulatory service.
Besides, he said that the state government had included a “reasonable amount’’ in its 2016 budget to upgrade health sector in the state. (NAN)