I'll Make Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Uselu A Collective One Rather Than Individual - Dr. Agbonile

By The9jaTrend

The Medical Director of Edo Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Uselu, Benin City, Dr. Imafidon Osama Agbonile has said that the major challenges faced by the hospital is the dual complexes which is a big task for the management in view of the dwindling economic raveging Nigeria as a country and the world at large, but promised to make the hospital's rebuilding efforts as a collective one rather than individual.

"The hospital's management is saddled with the onerous task of running a dual complexes with its attendant duplicity in waste management, disposal bills, overhead expenditures and others."

Dr. Agbonile revealed this during a chat with The9jaTrend on the challenges being faced by the hospital and his plans of making it a referral point among other hospitals of similar nature across the world.

He noted, "the idea of a dual complexes grew out of the fact that the original site of the hospital at Uselu, which started as a clinic at inception, could no longer cope with patients' traffic and staff."

He stressed that the construction work on the new site, which is meant to serve as permanent site, has been ongoing for over 10 years with its appreciable number of structures on ground to show for the level of government commitment to its completion.

According to Dr. Agbonile, "the permanent site is presently being put into effective use pending the completion of construction works and final movement of the main shell of the  hospital.

"We are on a tight rope as things stand. Running a dual site means double overheads on virtually every area of hospital management. Very soon, we are hopeful that we would streamline our costs and make some savings once the hospital moves to its permanent site," the M.D. said.