N41 Billion Akwa Ibom Hospital Shuts Down

The Ibom Specialist Hospital in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, has been shut down, just two years after it was built and commissioned by the administration of former governor, Godswill Akpabio.

Almost all the health workers in the hospital were foreigners, mostly from India.

Mr. Akpabio had boasted that the hospital, which he described as ‘world class’, was better equipped and higher in status than university teaching hospitals in Nigeria, and that it was going to promote medical tourism in the country.

The multi-million dollar hospital was shut down in September after its private managers terminated their contract with the state government and withdrew from the facility.

Some persons who had worked in the hospital said that the private managers – Cardiocare Medical Services Ltd – left because of unresolved issues bordering on funding by the state government.

UCJ, UNILORIN.