The Chief Medical Director of the Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti, Prof Adekunle Ajayi, has disclosed its plan to commit about 80 per cent of its budgetary allocation to medical equipment in 2024.
The CMD, who spoke to journalists at Ido Ekiti on Friday on the gains of the visit of the House of Representatives Committee on Health to the institution, said, “Our gain from the visit is huge. They (committee members) have seen the facility and our challenges. They expressed commitment to help us address some of these challenges.
“For next year, we will expand the scope of what we do. We are going to ensure that we link all our Electronic Medical Records so that the hospital in terms of clinical practice can go 100 per cent paperless.
“By next year, about 80 per cent of whatever allocation we get from the budget will be to improve the facilities in terms of medical equipment. We will also ensure that we create an integration of all the bit-by-bit things that we have done in the last five years.”
Among the challenges of FETHI which the CMD enumerated before the Amos Magaji-led House Committee were huge power cost, inadequate water supply, poor access roads, ecological challenges, uncertain manpower planning and the need to upgrade medical facility.
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