Kwara State Government has officially handed over the State Civil Service Hospital project site to the contractor for the construction and upgrade of the facility which will ensure better service delivery to the people of the state.
At a short site handover ceremony in Ilorin on Tuesday evening, the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Amina Ahmed El-Imam said the expansion work will help to accommodate the pace of traffic to the hospital, especially after the Ilorin General Hospital had become a tertiary health facility.
El-Imam said the contractor has been mobilized and would be moving to site soon.
Mr Falade Gbenga, who is the Press Secretary of the state Ministry of Health, noted in a statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com that the site handover ceremony was attended by the Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Segun Ogunsola; General Manager of the State Public Procurement Agency, Raheem Abdulbaqi; Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Afsat Nike Ibrahim; and representative of the Craneburg Construction Nigeria, Elio Khowiy; among others.
‘Today, we are witnessing the handing over of the Civil Service Clinic from the Ministry of Health to the contractor, Craneburg Construction Nigeria, for a complete revamp’ the Commissioner for Health, said.
‘It is going to be a massive project that will contain a lot of amenities to deliver top-notch health services to the people of Kwara State and beyond.
This project means an elevation of the Civil Service Clinic to the standard that the people of Kwara deserve. It is a centrally located facility that has over the years serviced people and provided them with good healthcare. However, the demand has outstripped its capacity.
Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, in his typical style, decided that rather than erecting small rooms, the hospital needed to be completely overhauled and upgraded’ she added.
The commissioner also said the new civil service hospital project will provide cutting-edge healthcare to the people, particularly residents of GRA, Fate, Tanke, Basin, Gaa Akanbi, and Sango, among others.
She explained that the upgrade of the Ilorin General Hospital to the State University Teaching Hospital had created gaps for secondary healthcare services, thereby necessitating the turnaround of the civil service hospital.
‘This project will be a modern facility that will take care of health challenges our people may be facing in Kwara. We have a reliable and competent contractor that will handle the project because we are very concerned about the completion date and quality of the project’ Ogunsola also said.
Craneburg representative, Elio Khowiy said the company will not compromise the standards of the work while promising that the first phase of the project will be delivered in 18 months’ time.
He noted that the completion of the first phase of the project can give the facility a good start of operations, while work continues in the other phase-Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com. Thank you
